Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...

The Greek rulers who built Alexandria had taken ancient Egyptian ... Daniel Stanley of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History examined dozens of drilled cores of ...

The Greek community of Alexandria long considered itself one of the main actors in the building of Modern Egypt. Today there are fewer than 1,000 Greeks living in the city, but those who remain still ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

Hope of of Darkness.” The Alexandria Museum of Art will host the exhibit until April 22.

Among them was the Septuagint, the first Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible-essential for Alexandria's large Jewish ... plan to build an underwater museum around the ruins, though ground ...

A traveling exhibit called "Solomon Northup: Hope of Darkness" is on display at the Alexandria Museum of Art until April 22. The exhibit features a statue of Solomon Northup, a free man who was ...