Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Mai Ghaly Elgazzar’s map Egypt Old Cairo blends the past ... This map beautifully illustrates Alexandria’s blend of ancient urban planning, coastal geography, and its deep connection to ...

We're in Egypt ... I gasped when I first reached Alexandria and its library, and gasped again when I learned the design team had based their building on a real ancient library.

Travelers visiting Egypt have long marveled at the vestiges of the pharaohs’ lost world—the great pyramids, ancient temples and ... uses a Lidar scanner to map the 4,300-year-old tomb of ...

Some time around 250 BC, Eratosthenes – a Greek poet, mathematician and chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria – looked into a well in Syene, which is now the city of Aswan in Egypt ...

Trodden by millions of pilgrims over the ages, this sacred site is marked on many maps as Mount Sinai ... who was martyred in Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century. Angels, it is said ...

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Alexander the Great famously founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BCE. It went on to be the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian settlement likely built by Tutankhamun's father around 3,400 years ago in a huge ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...