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Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt's resorts (AP)

http://us.rd.yahoo.com – 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. Read »
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