The city is best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), once one of the tallest man-made structures in the ... Today, the modern Bibliotecha Alexandrina is a commemoration of the original ...

Picture Contact / Alamy Editor’s Note: This article was adapted from its original form and ... ladder a few blocks from Alexandria’s harbor, and the legendary city suddenly looms into view.

Alexandria is a city of turning points ... built in the late 200s B.C.E. The Serapeum library may have outlived the original Great Library, but it, too, was closed in the fourth century C.E ...