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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Osiris II: [QB] After Alexander the Great added Egypt to his empire, he established the city of Alexandria. Egypt became a Greek posession, and Alexandria was the main city in Egypt, according to the Greeks. It became the center of the Greek and then the Roman cultures. In fact, the last ruler of Egypt was Cleopatra VII, and she ruled from Alexandria. When the city was built, many public buildings were in the original plans--theaters, temples of the gods, both Egyptian and Greek--and one of the highlites of the city was its library. One of the early Ptolomies made it a requirment of ships that wanted to use the port of Alexandria that they supply the city with books--scrolls, really, that were taken, copies made and the copies returned to the captains of the ships--the originals went into Alexandria's library. In just a short time, it became a huge site, with many valuable scrolls on medicine, philosophy, botany--practically any subject you could imagine. This vast storehouse of knowledge attracted sholors from many places in the then-known world, when students and scholars alike were able to use the many scrolls for study. The knowledge there was unimaginable! And, unfortunatly, the library burned and most of the scrolls were lost. The facts surrounding the blaze are hazy, at best, but Julius Caesar is usually given the blame--he started the fires to help control an invading enemy, and lost control of it, and the library burned. We will never know for sure the knowledge that was lost to us, but it was, indeed, a great misfortune for man. Now, I understand, the library has been rebuilt. As yet, it does not have nearly the books that were lost to us, but hopefully, in coming years, this situation will change, and there will once again be a center of learning in Alexandria. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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