Ancient city crumbles as looming threat begins to wreak havoc: 'Undoing in decades what took millennia of human ingenuity to create'

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Ancient city crumbles as looming threat begins to wreak havoc: 'Undoing in decades what took millennia of human ingenuity to create'

Manage your accountThe ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria is increasingly succumbing to rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion. As a result, researchers fear crucial historical information could be lost, and the impacts could be far-reaching.A team from the University of Southern California examined shoreline changes in Alexandria using a three-pronged approach, according to a news release published by EurekAlert.Using satellite imagery and …