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Alexandria
Alexandria. Bride of Cities. Mistress of the Sea. Fabled city of Alexander the Great. In this remarkable volume, expert scholars and a master photographer capture a lasting impression of the capital and seaport founded by Alexander on Egypt's Mediterranean shore three centuries before the birth of Christ. Morsi Saad El-Din's essay is an homage to Alexandria as well as an overview of the city and the book. He provides pithy, colloquial observations and a wealth of little-known facts and anecdotes, and he undertakes to provide an answer to the elusive whereabouts of Alexander's tomb. Gamal Mokhtar traces the origins of relations between Egypt and Greece that provide the context for Alexander's founding of his immortal city. He peels back little-known layers of cultural, historical, political and economic circumstance from which the city evolved. Soon after its founding, Alexander...
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