Mideast Egypt Ancient City by the Sea
With a five star hotel in the background, a Roman bath, part of a villa located around the commercial center of the ancient city of Leukaspis , a well known Greco-Roman port overlooking the Mediterranean Sea at the costal resorts of Marina, el Alamein, Egypt Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. 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. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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