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Alexandria Archive MCP Server

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Alexandria Archive is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

History of Alexandria, Egypt: search the archive, read articles, find events and prints.

Uptime history 68 hours of history
68 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
143 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Alexandria Archive every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add archive --transport http https://www.alexandria-archive.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archive": {
      "url": "https://www.alexandria-archive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.archive]
url = "https://www.alexandria-archive.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archive": {
      "url": "https://www.alexandria-archive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archive": {
      "url": "https://www.alexandria-archive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

archive
search_archive
Search historical photographs, documents, maps, articles, and events of the Alexandria Archive. Query can be Arabic or English (e.g. 'Stanley Bridge', 'كوم الدكة'). Returns titles and canonical URLs.
article
get_article
Fetch one published article by numeric id — returns full markdown text in Arabic and English plus metadata.
institution
get_institution
Fetch a single institution by its slug — description, history, contact details, and a sample of its published archive items with canonical URLs. Use this to answer questions about a specific institution's holdings, or to find items available for licensing.
institutions
list_institutions
List museums, libraries, archives and other institutions that publish their collections on the Alexandria Archive. Returns name, type, item count and canonical URL.
licensing
get_licensing_info
Explain how an image or document from the Alexandria Archive may be reused or licensed (publication, broadcast, commercial use), and where the request is made. Pass itemId for one archive record; omit it for the general terms.
recent
list_recent_articles
List the most recently published articles (id, title, excerpt, date, URL).
store
list_store_products
List products on sale in the Alexandria Archive's store — prints, books and gifts about the city — with price in Egyptian pounds and the product page. Sales support the archive.
upcoming
list_upcoming_events
List the Alexandria Archive's upcoming events — heritage walks, workshops, talks — soonest first, with date, place, price in Egyptian pounds (or free) and the page where a person books a seat. Use for questions like 'what is on in Alexandria this week' or 'a history walk in Alexandria'.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.alexandria-archive.com/mcp streamable-http answering 129 ms 13 min ago

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Alexandria Archive — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Alexandria Archive do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, get_institution, get_licensing_info, list_institutions, list_recent_articles, list_store_products and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Alexandria Archive working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 143 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Alexandria Archive?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Alexandria Archive need an API key?
No. Alexandria Archive completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Alexandria Archive?
It answers our handshake in 143 ms on average, which is faster than 76% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.