Resources

An informative site about Alexandria's Ptolemaic, Roman, Arab, and Modern periods, including a picture gallery and visitors guide.

Using vivid underwater photography, this book illustrates how ancient Alexandrian artifacts were recovered.

This scholarly and comprehensive history charts the course of Alexandria from its founding by Alexander the Great to its days as the most powerful city in the Mediterranean World.

This book places each of the seven wonders into a historical context and discusses the ways that archaeologists have reconstructed and interpreted them.