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-Roman ...

A diver uses a differential underwater GPS to locate the exact position of a sphinx representing Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy XII. © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation ...

Ahmed Shawkat is a CBS News producer based in Cairo. He has worked for CBS News since 2016, prior to which he worked with several European networks including TVE, ZDF, SVT and Yle. The ...

Archaeologists conducting excavations in the ancient harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, recently made a amazing discovery. For the first time ever, they have unearthed from the sea floor the well-preserved ...

“But libraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions; they cannot long survive violent assaults. A way of life was dying.” That quote is from Stephen Greenblatt’s book “The Swerve.” He’s ...

Just below the Mediterranean’s surface, in Alexandria’s harbor, lie the ruins of a mysterious ancient monument. For more than 20 years, French explorer Franck Goddio has been hoping to confirm these ...

STORY: “All my life, I have been living in areas overlooking the sea, and we used to see the sea all the time. The sea looks completely different now, it is completely different.” From her ninth-floor ...

Climate change-induced seawater intrusions are hastening the collapse of buildings in the ancient Egyptian port city of Alexandria — posing threats similar to those challenging coastal California, a ...

Even so, ancient Alexandria’s remains are perhaps being destroyed faster than they’re being discovered, because of real estate development. Since 1997, Empereur has undertaken 12 “rescue digs,” in ...