The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E.

The city has long been Egypt’s gateway to the world. From ancient times it was a cosmopolitan ... No place better embodies that effort than the Library of Alexandria, a gleaming, modern facility ...

Paul Getty Museum on the subject of Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Subjects range from “The Library of Alexandria and Ancient Egyptian Learning” and “Alexander’s Alexandria” to “Alexandria and the ...

Once pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean, Alexandria, Egypt has long ... There is the elegant new library, for example, which the government built in 2002, and the ancient bars where silent men ...

In Islamic Egypt, the institution of the library flourished as it had in the thousands of years before in ancient, Hellenistic and Roman ... accept the high figures given for the holdings of the ...

Between North-East Africa and the Middle East lies Egypt ... it was home to the Alexandria lighthouse, one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, as well as an immense library that burnt down ...

Paul Getty Museum on the subject of Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Subjects range from “The Library of Alexandria and Ancient Egyptian Learning” and “Alexander’s Alexandria” to “Alexandria and the ...