But the ghost of Cleopatra wafts like a mist over contemporary Alexandria. Stothard, while exploring hidden corners of the city, considers all the Cleopatras he’s encountered, from Plutarch’s ...

Strabo called the city a necropolis, where the illustrious and the less so came to die. It is this Alexandria that haunts Islam Issa, whose family has resided there for many generations. What ...

The original library of Alexandria housed 500,000 scrolls, which made it a center of culture and scholarship from the third century B.C. into the early Christian era. The modern Bibliotheca aims ...

One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be the last of her dynasty. But while she's often thought to be a great beauty who seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony ...

Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted up a 9-ton temple pylon that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in the harbor of Alexandria.

Julius Caesar arrived in Alexandria days after Pompey's murder. He barricaded himself in the Ptolemies' palace, the home from which Cleopatra had been exiled.

In April, he said he hopes to find the long-lost tomb of Antony and Cleopatra – and that he believes it may be inside a temple of Osiris located about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Alexandria.

The Alexandria Stothard renders bears little resemblance to the classical portrait of the great city. There is no Lighthouse, no Great Library, not even a Nile crocodile at the mouth of the river ...