Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt's resorts
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 07:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(AP) -- Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.