Although its great boom occurred in the 16th century, the drive to travel the known world and discover new lands was ...

The ancient city was founded in 631 B.C. by Greek settlers from the island of Thera in the Aegean Sea—a part of the eastern Mediterranean wedged between Greece and Turkey.

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On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an archaeological site named for a mound roughly in the shape of a horseshoe ...