and the battered Pharos tumbled into the sea. By the time Napoleon landed at Alexandria as a first stop on his ill-fated campaign to subdue Egypt, in 1798, only a few ancient monuments and columns ...

Sat on the western edge of the Nile River delta, Egypt was founded around 331 BC by Alexander ... The city is best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), once one of the tallest man-made ...

This high-paying yet daunting role is that of a lighthouse keeper at the Pharos of Alexandria, a legendary structure near Alexandria’s port in Egypt. Though it offers unmatched wealth ...

but of the whole country named Egypt. Every captain, every traveler entering the harbor of Alexandria was obliged to pass in front of the statue of the kings and queens—the kings as pharaohs ...

Its Lighthouse, or Pharos, was one of the Seven Ancient ... By the time Napoleon invaded Egypt, in 1798, Alexandria had become a humble Ottoman port. How was the Great Library of Alexandria ...

The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new ...

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