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Michael Borrie Literary Review June 1999
There is tantalisingly little known about the great library of Alexandria. The writers, philosophers and historians who used it, and whose works filled its shelves, were the founding fathers of Western civilisation. But the library itself and its contents, the centre of the intellectual universe for a thousand years, have vanished as though they had never been...
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Russell Chamberlin's Bookshelf, Monacle December 1999
Over the past few months there have been exciting reports of how underwater archaeology is uncovering "lost" Alexandria, the great port in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great. Parts of Cleopatra's palace: the base of the Pharos, the lighthouse adjudged to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World, statues which have lain under the Mediterranean for nearly two millennia, have been brought to the surface. No trace, however, has been found of the great library which, according to tradition, was burnt down by Julius Caesar...
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