The original plan for this city was drawn out in grains of barley, which were predictably eaten bysurrounding birds.
The original plan for this city was drawn out in grains of barley, which were predictably eaten bysurrounding birds. This city was connected to a nearby island by the Heptastadion. After this city'sinhabitants mockingly compared Caracalla to Oedipus, he massacred its youth in a rage. The modern word"museum" comes from this city's "Institution of the Muses," or Mouseion. The Septuagint was producedhere for the use of Greek-speaking Jews in its Delta Quarter. This city was the intellectual capital of theHellenistic world because it was home to scholars such as Callimachus and Euclid. For 10 points, name thiscapital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, an Egyptian city named for a great conqueror.
The original plan for this city was drawn out in grains of barley, which were predictably eaten bysurrounding birds.
Alexandria [or Al-Iskandariyyah]