The loss of the ancient world's single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of Alexandria, has been lamented for ages. But how and why it was lost is still a mystery. The mystery exists not for lack of suspects but from an excess of them. founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great.
More info: #was #lost #alexandria40,000 scrolls The first-century AD Roman playwright and Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger quote ...
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