Photographic Views of Egypt, Past and Present

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.