It was supposed to be the largest single repository of classical knowledge in the ancient world, the holder of all the "books" known at the time.
Built by the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt in the third century B.CE., the Library of Alexandria was said to contain hundreds of thousands...
It was supposed to be the largest single repository of classical knowledge in the ancient world, the holder of all the "books" known at the time.
Built by the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt in the third century B.CE., the Library of Alexandria was said to contain hundreds of thousands of manuscripts as part of one king's Herculean effort to
collect "all the books in the world."