And with good reason! The city, once called Thebes and the capital of the New Kingdom of Pharaonic Egypt, is home to some of the most impressive temples in Egypt, such as the Temple of Karnak ...

A controversial new Egyptian capital city is being built 30 miles east of Cairo at the expense of $45bn. "Sprawled" across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, the "showy new ...

But what many don’t know is that Alexandria, which lies about 136 miles northwest of Cairo, actually once stood as Egypt’s capital city, from 332 BC until 642 AD - a period of 973 years.

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