Once pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean, Alexandria, Egypt has long been neglected. Now it is drowning. A report from a forgotten city. A small restaurant in Abukir, a dreary suburb of Alexandria ...

Saleh, a soil radiation scientist at Alexandria University in Egypt and one of the study’s co-authors. Even a small increase in sea levels — “just a few centimeters” — can have ...

But what many don’t know is that Alexandria, which lies about 136 miles northwest of Cairo, actually once stood as Egypt’s capital city, from 332 BC until 642 AD - a period of 973 years.