Reconstructions of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
From the historical perspective, the list of Seven Wonders of the Ancient World comes to us from an incomplete manuscript known as the Seven Sights…
Alexandria
A series of Ptolemaic buildings and a tunnel unearthed in Alexandria, Egypt
21 years of excavating at the Shalallat Gardens area in Alexandria have come to fruition for the Greek archaeologists at Hellenic Institute for the Research…
Nifty 3D animation presents the grandeur of ancient Alexandria, from its library to lighthouse
Alexander the Great possibly christened around 70 settlements from Africa to Asia after his own name (along with at least one after his horse’s name). The small…
Hypatia: The last of the great philosophers who was also a mathematician extraordinaire
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a…
