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Article: Born great.(cultural revival in Alexandria, Egypt)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 6, 1998
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ALEXANDRIA
FOUNDED by Alexander the Great and ruled by Cleopatra, the city of Alexandria has much to remember of ancient glory. But until recently it had very little to remember it by. The city today is a grubby, rough-edged sprawl of 6m souls stretched along 30 miles of Egypt's Mediterranean coastline. Transformed from the dusty fishing village which it had become by 1800 into one of the Mediterranean's busiest ports, the new town rose square on top of the old. The main street of Graeco-Roman times is now one of Alexandria's busiest traffic arteries. The city of Cleopatra lies 20 feet (six metres) below. But now, with Paris hosting an exhibition devoted to ...
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