Alexandria - 3D Timelapse (NO AI)

Alexander the Great founded Alexandria on an empty stretch of the Egyptian coast. Watch the whole story, from the Library and the Lighthouse to Cleopatra, the Arabs, the Ottomans and the city of 5.7 million today, as a 3D timelapse. 0:00 A fishing village on the beach 0:31 Alexander the Great founds Alexandria 1:20 The Library and the Museum 1:44 The Lighthouse 2:12 The greatest city on Earth 2:35 Caesar's fire 2:50 Cleopatra dies: Roman Egypt 3:42 The great wave of 365 3:59 The Serapeum falls 4:21 The Arabs arrive 5:11 The Lighthouse falls 5:33 Qaitbay's fort 5:48 The Ottoman town 6:10 Napoleon 6:31 A city of the world: the canal and the cotton boom 7:19 The bombardment of 1882 7:33 A city of many peoples 7:54 The king sails away 8:25 The new Library 8:41 Alexandria today 8:57 Then and now 9:09 The whole story in 20 seconds Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, public domain, except The Portable Antiquities Scheme / Stuart Wyatt (CC BY 2.0), Prof. Mortel (CC BY 2.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Terrain: Copernicus DEM. Music (in order of appearance): "Ether Vox" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Light Mood" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Sunset Fields" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/