"Like pieces of a giant archaeological puzzle." Built on Egypt's Mediterranean coast during the third century B.C.E., the ...

At the edge of the Mediterranean, off the coast of modern-day Alexandria, an international team has recovered 22 immense ...

The long-lost Wonder of the World was rediscovered underwater in 1968. Finally, some of its blocks have been raised to the ...

Using advanced technology, the team is surveying ancient Alexandria’s Royal Quarters, encased deep below the harbor sediment, and confirming the accuracy of descriptions of the city left by ...

In ancient world the Library at Alexandria, Egypt was the meeting place where philosophical, spiritual, and cosmological teachings met to create a vital cultural environment. But the Library ...

One of the great tragedies of ancient history, memorialized in myths and Hollywood film, is the burning of the great library at Alexandria. But the reality of the Library’s end was actually a ...

The opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria ...

But by the 700s CE, sea-level rise and land subsidence had drowned the ruins of the ancient city, leaving it submerged in the shadow of the city that replaced it.

The royal quarters of Cleopatra and Marc Anthony may become a diving attraction. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 10, 2010 -- Deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt's ancient capital Alexandria lies a ...