Egypt
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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Tourism: Alexandria's Efforts To Lure Visitors
Earth Times Alexandria, Egypt - Just mention Alexandria and the name city rekindles the Pharoh era when the city was the location of a lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Library of Alexandria was the biggest at that...
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Restoration Of St Catherine's Mosaic
These are snippets from the Egyptian Gazette - I had forgotten when I found them, yesterday, that the EG doesn't archive its past news items, so I'm afraid that the URLs are no longer valid. If you click on them, another story entirely comes up....
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Development Of The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
http://www.strategiy.com/realestatenew.asp?id=20060521110422 Plans for development of the waterfront area around the Alexandria library have been announced: "Emaar Misr for Development S.A.E., a subsidiary of the UAE-based Emaar Properties and Artoc Group...
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2nd Century Mosaic Found In Northern Sinai
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=qw1124893263950B221 "A nine-metre-long Roman mosaic dating from the 2nd Century has been unearthed by an Egyptian-Polish archaeological team in northern Sinai, the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
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Ancient University Of Alexandria Found
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05092004/nation_w/164862.asp
A Polish-Egyptian team has found the remains of the University of Alexandria. It has been found in a part of modern Alexandria where a theatre had already been identified, now thought to be...
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