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The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great's birth, a new study finds.

The Egyptian city of Alexandria – Alexander's most famous relic – was in fact not founded by the fearsome warrior shortly before he died in 332 BC, according to one history buff.

According to UNESCO, which proclaimed Alexandria the city of the year 1999, the ancient Egyptians had a settlement on the Mediterranean, well before Alexander ever named that city “Alexandria”.

Alexandria has tried to recapture some of its intellectual glory, building a $230 million library on the city’s renovated seaside promenade with help from around the world.

We knew from ancient sources that the entrance of the harbor of Alexandria was very dangerous. This is due to the rocks which are at the surface of the water, or just below the surface.

The Macedonian king, who commanded an empire that stretched from Greece to Egypt to the Indus River in what is now India, founded the city of Alexandria in 331 B.C.