Once pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean, Alexandria, Egypt has long been neglected. Now it is drowning. A report from a forgotten city. A small restaurant in Abukir, a dreary suburb of Alexandria ...

Thonis-Heracleion once thrived at the mouth of the Nile, a vibrant city pulsing with trade and ceremony long before ...

while the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities envisions a series of transparent underwater tunnels in Alexandria’s harbor to show off the sunken city. The dusty Greco-Roman Museum ...

And so before it was difficult to proceed with underwater excavations ... only the masters of the Greek city of Alexandria, but of the whole country named Egypt. Every captain, every traveler ...

Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt's absorption into Greco ...

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Everything changed in 2000 when Franck Goddio and his team at the European Institute for Underwater ... noting that the city was once Egypt’s largest port before Alexandria was established.