This is not the Alexandria in the Nile Delta, but rather Alexandria ‘Beneath the Mountains’, in Afghanistan, discovered by a wandering scholar and archaeologist called Charles Masson in 1833. A fantastical mix of Great Game espionage, edge-of-empire characters and politics, brilliantly told.
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City
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