IT WAS GREEK IN ORIGIN, ALTHOUGH IT WAS LOCATED IN EGYPT, AND IT WAS SACKED AND BURNED BY JULIUS CAESAR IN 48 BC. NOW, WHAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME HERE IS ALSO THE GREAT LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA.
Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt, with over five million inhabitants. As a political centre in ancient times, the former location of the renowned ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and a ...
His contemporary, Saint Macarius of Alexandria, was so called because he came from Alexandria and was therefore of that Greek-speaking colony; while Saint Macarius the Great is also called "of Egypt," ...
Once pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean, Alexandria, Egypt ... the Great founded the port city in 331 BC, he laid the foundation for one of the most famous and largest metropolises of the ancient ...
archaeologists in Egypt found a massive black granite sarcophagus in Alexandria, untouched for 2,000 years - and fleet-footed rumour quickly got to work. Could it contain the remains of ancient ...
Two Thousand years after Alexander the Great created his magnum opus, where is the city of Alexandria now ... Centuries later, when the water receded, the remnants of the lighthouse were discovered ...