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The ancient underwater port of Alexandria still hides treasures from the days of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Divers know the city's royal harbor once dazzled the ancient world, but ...

Ancient statues, Roman coins and other artifacts from a sunken city were pulled from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt Thursday. The relics date back over 2,000 years. Egyptian authorities ...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) -From her ninth-floor balcony over Alexandria's seafront, Eman Mabrouk looked down at the strip of sand that used to be the wide beach where she played as a child. "The ...

And researchers in wet suits probing the harbor floor are mapping the old quays and the fabled royal quarter, including, just possibly, the palace of that most beguiling of all Alexandrians, Cleopatra ...

Cairo — Archaeologists say they have discovered evidence of an ancient, long-submerged Mediterranean port that was linked to the Taposiris Magna Temple near Egypt's northern coastal city of Alexandria ...

STORY: “All my life, I have been living in areas overlooking the sea, and we used to see the sea all the time. The sea looks completely different now, it is completely different.” From her ninth-floor ...

Looking for the best books on Ancient Egypt? Here’s our curated reading list – from beginner-friendly texts to academic classics and engrossing novels.