Photographic Views of Egypt, Past and Present #250771

And yet that Old Alexandria, which began to be in the fourth century before Christ, and of all whose palaces and temples and monuments only two columns are now stand ing, was the youngest of Egyptian cities, and was built by the conqueror Of Egypt when Thebes, and Memphis, and the university city Of Heliopolis, were already in their de cline. Such is the antiquity that meet us at the threshold of the land of the Nile.