Alexandria before Alexander
Egyptians have allowed Greece to claim Alexandria as a Graeco-Roman legacy. Jill Kamil goes back three hundred years before the great Mediterranean capital was founded and attempts to set the record straight

The American prophet
By Zahi Hawass

Rich pickings
The library of the Mouseion in Alexandria may have ceased to exist but evidence of what it once contained can be gleaned from fragments of papyri found elsewhere in Egypt, writes Jill Kamil.