as is the great library’s exact location. Even so, ancient Alexandria’s remains are perhaps being destroyed faster than they’re being discovered, because of real estate development.

For centuries Alexandria was the center of the Eastern Mediterranean. The library of the city was an ... «But little of the spirit of those days remains,» Vito says. «Almost all foreigners ...

It was one of some 30 towns and cities across his empire that was given the name of Alexandria, though it is the only one in Egypt that remains today ... The Great Library of Alexandria was ...

Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge. Established by an exiled Athenian statesman the “universal library” of ...