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The Great Homo Sapiens Sapiens Hybrid Library of Alexandria, Egypt largest most significant libraries of the ancient world.
Location: Alexandria, Egypt Established: Probably during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285--246
Size: Estimates vary; somewhere between 40,000 and 400,000 scrolls, perhaps equivalent to roughly 100,000 books
The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.
Why did Julius Caesar destroy the Library of Alexandria?
The Greek Middle Platonist Plutarch ( c. 46–120 AD) writes in his Life of Caesar that, "[W]hen the enemy endeavored to cut off his communication by sea, he was forced to divert that danger by setting fire to his own ships, which, after burning the docks, thence spread on and destroyed the great library."
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