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Contact Us Search our Site    The ancient library of Alexandria
and the re-built of the modern one  By: Sameh M. Arab. MD, PhD
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Alexandria, the main harbor of Egypt on the Mediterranean, was
once called "The pearl of the Mediterranean". Strabo, the
geographer in the 1st century AD, called Alexandria "The
greatest emporium of the inhabited world". The city was
supposed to witness the inauguration of its re-built famous
library, "Bibliotheca Alexandrina" on 23 April 2002, a date
that was postponed due to the ongoing political strains in the
Middle East. The word "bibliotheca" comes from the Greek word
for "books", since the ancient library belonged to the
Hellenistic period.  Alexander the Great built th