Alexandria
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Police standing apart every 6 feet at busy Ramses Train Station |
Our bus and driver for our all-day tour of older Roman city, Alexandria |
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Our police escorts for touring in Egypt's Mediterranean summer metropolis |
The only amphitheatre of this kind in Egypt dating back to 2nd C AD |
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Mal stands at orator's spot facing 12 rows of marble seats, mosaic flooring |
Mosaic columns near 1000-seat amphitheater where summer events occur |
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A sphinx-like head thought to be that of Cleopatra's father |
Underwater discoveries in Eastern Harbor has unearthed hundreds of objects |
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Hieroglyphics on columns among the finds by Frank Goddio in 1996 |
Statues, sphinxes, and ceramics discovered at Kom-el-Dikka site |
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Cute little Egyptian girl with her mom visit the underwater discovery site |
Entrance to new, modern Bibliotheca Alexandria (library and cultural centre) |
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Giant cylindrical building, encasing the main library and made of Aswan granite, is engraved with letters of world's alphabets |
Mural of city in one section of the greatest library in the ancient world, attracting the best international scholars |
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Library wall sculpture in cultural centre re-inaugurated in Oct. 2002 |
Library built to honor the past, celebrate the present, and to invent the future |
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Partly-glazed roof angles sunlight on desks of 7-tier, 2K-seat reading rooms |
Egypt's center for learning, tolerance, dialogue, and understanding! |