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Egypt’s Mediterranean coast protected in reserve
Egypt wants visitors to discover its Mediterranean coast at a marine reserve being established near the border with Libya. The 383-sq km (150-square-mile) reserve, mostly in the water in the Gulf of el-Salloum, is Egypt’s 28th nature protectorate, but its first on the Mediterranean. The protectorate contains more than 160 migratory and local bird species, about... »
Granite pylon lifted out of the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria
Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday lifted an ancient granite temple pylon out of the waters of the Mediterranean, where it had lain for centuries as part of the palace complex of Cleopatra, now lay strewn on the seabed in the harbor of Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt. The pylon, which once stood at the... »
Smugglers loot Libya’s Roman ruins across Egypt
Image via Wikipedia International antiquities-smuggling gangs are pilfering Libya’s Roman ruins, which are some of the most pristine in the world. This trade, which first began in 1987 with the opening of the Egyptian border, has accelerated since 2003 with an unprecedented gutting of Libya’s ancient heritage sites underway since. Ancient ports, villas and entire Roman cities... »
