Location from civilization by Firaxis Games / 2K
Egypt's great Mediterranean port city, home to the Library of Alexandria and the crossroads of the ancient world's most important trade routes.
Alexandria was built by Alexander the Great and inherited by Cleopatra, and it shows: the city is a deliberate cosmopolitan statement, designed to be the world's intellectual and commercial center. The famous Library holds scrolls from every civilization known to Egypt, and Cleopatra's scholars are actively copying more. The harbor is never quiet. Ships from Greece, Rome, Carthage, Nubia, and Arabia dock here, unloading papyrus, glass, grain, and gossip. Alexandria is a city that runs on information as much as on trade.
A gleaming white city on the edge of the Mediterranean — the Pharos lighthouse visible from thirty miles at sea. The streets are broad and grid-planned, the markets overflowing with goods from three continents. The Library stands near the harbor, its reading rooms open to scholars from every civilization.
Also known as: Alexandria, The Pearl of Egypt, The City of Alexander