Experts uncover city beneath Alexandria

Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalise his name amid his quest to conquer the world – but it was apparently not the first city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.

Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalise his name amid his quest to conquer the world – but it was apparently not the first city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.

A US geological team has uncovered underwater evidence pointing to an urban settlement at the site dating back seven centuries before Alexander came in 331 BC.

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