The city is best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), once one of the tallest man ... Greek and Egyptian culture.

PoodlesRock / Corbis The 1400s Qait Bey fort was likely built from the rubble of Alexandria's 40-story lighthouse ... columns and blocks from aboveground ruins. Few cities in the ancient or ...

Unfortunately, ancient Alexandria's most important sites have not survived. Its Lighthouse ... sightseers can also visit the ruins of the Serapeum, a temple that hosted a "daughter" branch ...

A series of earthquakes between AD 956 and 1333 left it in ruins, and in 1477, the Citadel of Qaitbay was built on its remains. In 1994, archaeologists discovered what are believed to be fragments of ...