Egypt
A Day in Alexandria
Here Dr. Hawass spends a day in the city of Alexandria.
http://drhawass.com/blog/day-alexandria
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Original Documents From Ancient Alexandria
What's New in Payprology (Gregg Schwendner) A sizeable portion of the published texts from Alexandria consists of letters or administrative documents written from Alexandria to someone or other in the Nile Valley. They document in a unique way how...
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Alexandria Capital Of Islamic Culture For 2008
Egypt State Information Service Alexandria governorate has created, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, a memorial logo for the Egyptian city and it will issue a postage stamp printing the planned logo on it. This came on the occasion of designating...
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Alexandria Quartet 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Egypt Daily Star News Generations of writers have been inspired by the multi-cultural, outward-looking city of Alexandria. In recent history, the most famous literary work about Alexandria by a non-Egyptian author is Lawrence Durrell’s “Justine,”...
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Alexandria's Submerged Archaeology
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/tr1.htm A travel account of diving into Alexandria's underwater archaeolgy: "Thanks to the earthquake that rocked Alexandria in 1323 the Mediterranean has preserved to divers one of the seven wonders of the world...
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Beautiful Mosaic
Here a photo of a beautiful mosaic found during the construction of the library of Alexandria. http://drhawass.com/photoblog/beautiful-mosaic-new-library-alexandria...
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