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In Egypt the earthquake caused severe damage in Cairo, dislodging much of the Great Pyramid's white limestone casing [6] and toppling minarets on many mosques. In Alexandria the city walls were mostly destroyed. Most notably, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven Wonders of the World, was badly damaged.
Pharos was a small island located on the western edge of the Nile Delta.In 332 BC, Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite Pharos. . Alexandria and Pharos were later connected by a mole [6] spanning more than 1,200 metres (0.75 miles), which was called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadion was a Greek unit of length measuring approximate
Certain local efforts have called for the structure to be relit, but as of 2017, the only working lighthouse on the Potomac River is the Fort Washington Point Lighthouse, located five miles downriver. The lighthouse is located on Jones Point in Alexandria, and is part of Jones Point Park. Visitors can approach the lighthouse, but it is ...
Video from al-Fakhoura School in Jabalya – which was being used as a shelter for displaced people – shows bloodied bodies across a series of rooms on two floors of the two-story building. Many ...
A passenger bus slammed into a parked vehicle on a foggy Saturday morning on a highway linking the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing at least 32 people ...
Satellite images show the extent of the damage from Hurricane Milton, which spawned tornadoes across Florida and struck the state as a Category 3 hurricane.. The fatal storm surge that forecasters ...
Raya and Sakina (Arabic: ريا وسكينة) were two Egyptian women who were Egypt's most infamous serial killers. Raya and Sakina were siblings. They, their husbands, and two other men began killing 17 women in the Labban neighborhood of Alexandria in 1919. [2] [3] The police were plagued by increasing reports of missing women. Not only were ...
Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Big Bend as a powerful Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. At least 3 million homes in 5 states lost power during the storm, which has weakened to a Category 1.