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Peppered with palm tree plantations and sloping villages of colorful mud-brick houses, Elephantine Island is Aswan's major tourist attraction. At ...

Alexandria's main souq (market) stretches through the backstreets heading west from Midan Tahrir in the central city. You'll find everything ...

One of Alexandria's major landmarks, the Abu Abbas al-Mursi Mosque was built in 1796 over the tomb of the 13th-century ...

There may be only scant remnants of the once grand Hellenistic city above ground, but dive into the waters of ...

Sumptuous Ras el-Tin Palace was once a summer escape for Egypt's sultans when the desert heat of Cairo got too ...

An oasis of calm on the city's eastern edge, Montazah is a lush haven of tall palm trees, trimmed lawns, ...

In Carmous (in the southwest of the city) is a hill littered with the remains of ancient walls, architectural fragments, ...

The Catacombs of Kom el-Shuqqafa are hewn from the rock on the southern slopes of a hill, in the Carmous ...

Nobody thought much of the ancient rubble mound in central Alexandria until, in 1947, they decided to clear the site ...

Downtown Alexandria's wide waterfront road is as much a symbol of the city as any of its monuments. It's here ...