Egypt's second largest city. After two decades of planning and construction, Bibliotheca Alexandrina now stands on Alexandria's waterfront just 130 feet from the sea. This new library, meant to be ...

Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space, with a series of events in Cairo ...

At the dawn of the Common Era, the Egyptian city of Alexandria boasted ... but since 2002 it has had a new library. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a steel and granite edifice designed by Norwegian ...

The modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina is near where the ancient ... The city replaced Memphis as the capital of Egypt upon its founding. That, plus its prime position on the Nile Delta, made it ...

Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt, with over five million inhabitants. As a political centre in ancient times, the former location of the renowned ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and a ...

the Globe Theatre staged Hamlet at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Egypt was the 67th stop on the renowned London theatre troupe's world tour. The company moves fast in its ambitious project aiming ...