Interactive Map Explorer

Explore Alexandria's historical maps interactively, era by era.

The map explorer lays Alexandria's historical maps over the modern city, so you can follow how the shoreline, the street names and the district boundaries changed from the Ptolemaic era through the Ottoman and Khedivial periods to today.

Places marked on the map are linked to archive records, so each marker opens the photographs and documents held for that location.

Districts of Alexandria the archive holds records of

Every record, in the archive explorer