Pharos, the ancient lighthouse of the port city of Alexandria, was one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Built on an island in the harbor of Alexandria, the Greeks created a causeway the lead ...

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 ...

Of the other six, the best documented is the huge Pharos lighthouse that stood watch over Alexandria. This exciting archaeological documentary follows the attempts by French explorer Jean-Yves ...