From its founding by Alexander the Great to the birth ... city - once home to two wonders of the ancient world, the Great Library of Alexandria and the Lighthouse of Alexandria - is now gradually ...

The second-largest city in the Roman Empire is now the second largest in Egypt. Here's what to know if you go.

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Climate change has shown no mercy to the places that were once magnificent and powerful. Two Thousand years after Alexander the Great created his magnum opus, where is the city of Alexandria now?

was a great Father of the Church and a pillar of Orthodoxy. He was born around the year 297 in the city of Alexandria into a family of pious Christians. He received a fine secular education, but he ...