Alexandria erodes: Rising sea levels threaten ancient city's foundation
Over the past two decades, more than 280 buildings have collapsed in Alexandria, resulting in the deaths of 85 people.
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Ancient city crumbles as looming threat begins to wreak havoc: 'Undoing in decades what took millennia of human ingenuity to create'
The ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria is increasingly succumbing to rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion. As a result, researchers fear crucial historical information could be lost, and the ...
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Coastal erosion threatens this ancient city — and others much closer to home
The map catalogs key details about each ... them that’s being affected,” said Ibrahim H. Saleh, a soil radiation scientist at Alexandria University and one of the study’s co-authors.
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Cleopatra’s birthplace sees ‘dramatic surge’ in building collapses as sea level rises, study shows
They created a digital map to identify locations of collapsed ... weakens the soil,” said Ibrahim H. Saleh, a soil radiation scientist at Alexandria University in Egypt and one of the study ...