Illustration of the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, from Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World (c.1882). Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Coastal erosion from rising sea levels has led to the collapse of 280 buildings across Alexandria, Egypt, over the past two ...

Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt's absorption into Greco ...

View of the great library at Alexandria, 1890. Via Wikimedia Commons. CARL ROLLYSON Jan. 15, 2025 04:00 AM ET. Gift this article. ... The Romans and Egyptians, coupled for a brief moment in the ...

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

The historic Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is experiencing a “dramatic surge” in building collapses linked to coastal erosion and rising levels of the ...

More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains ...

The historic Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is experiencing a “dramatic surge” in building collapses linked to coastal erosion and rising levels of the ...