alexandria (egypt)

Follows Franck Goddio and his team of underwater archaeologists as they search the seabed for artifacts from lost cities that can provide a new picture of what life was like in Egypt during the age of Cleopatra.

"King Uhla'ar has kidnapped Aly and taken her and an orb back through a rift in time. A giant, merciless behemoth guards the opening, and so Jack and his friends realize that their only hope to rescue Aly is to rush to find the rest of the lost Loculi. This mission takes them around the world-to the Temple of Artemis to fend off a mighty army and then to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, where they wind up swallowed in the belly of a beast."--Publisher.

"King Uhla'ar has kidnapped Aly and taken her and an orb back through a rift in time. A giant, merciless behemoth guards the opening, and so Jack and his friends realize that their only hope to rescue Aly is to rush to find the rest of the lost Loculi. This mission takes them around the world-to the Temple of Artemis to fend off a mighty army and then to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, where they wind up swallowed in the belly of a beast."--Publisher.

A detective goes missing when the ship carrying Flavia and her friends from North Africa to Ostia is wrecked, and the other detectives take on a quest that brings them to the port of Alexandria where they must decipher codes, travel down the Nile River, and enter tombs to solve the mystery.

Egytologist Matthew Sedon and student Isabella de Reims, imbued with the spirits of legendary lovers Griffin and Sabine, continue their love affair and their pursuit of the archaeological secrets of Alexandria through a series of postcards, letters, and drawings.

"When Peter Stothard, editor of the Times literary supplement, finds himself stranded in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the winter of 2010, after his flight has been cancelled due to severe weather, he sets out to explore a nation on the brink of revolution."--Jacket flap.

At the turn of the first millennium, Alexandria was a city poised to conquer the world through knowledge, scientific, and artistic achievement. It was in Alexandria that mankind first realized the world was not flat, geometry was invented, the steam engine was built, and the first accurate world maps were drawn.