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There are several stories: 1) In 47 B.C., when Caesar was in Alexandria, some 40,000 volumes which were stored near the arsenal -perhaps with the view to theri shipment to Rome, were accidentally burtnt. 2) The Royal Library The Royal Library was an unfortunate casualty of war. In 48 B.C., Caesar found himself involved in a civil war between Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII. Caesar sided with Cleopatra and was soon besieged by land and sea by the Ptolomaic forces. He realised that his only chance lay in setting fire to the enemy fleet and it was by this drastic measure that he managed to gain the upper hand. But the fire, in the words of Plutarch, spread from the dockyards and destroyed the "Great Library". The Daughter Library As regards the Daughter Library, it continued to function throughout the Roman period under the protection of the Sarapeum. Nevertheless, with the end of paganism and the ascendancy of Christianity in the fourth century, the Sarapeum lost its sanctity. In 391, when the Emperor Theodisius ordained the destruction of all pagan temples, contemporary eyewitnesses assert that the Sarapeum, together with all its contents, suffered complete annihilation. 3) The story that it was finally burnt by Arabs is now discredited; since, when the Arabs conquered Egypt in 642 A.D., the Alexandria Library no longer existed. It is noteworthy that no historians of the conquest, whether Byzantine or Arab, ever mention any accident that could have occurred to the Library. It was not until six centuries later, during the time of the Crusades, when all of a sudden a story emerges, claiming that the Arab general Amr Ibn Al-As, had destroyed the books by using them as fuel for the baths! [Ref. my Professor Dr. Mustafa El-Abbady]. Leave a Comment Directions: Alexandria, Egypt
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| | | | new Library of Alexandria: Zoom in! | Tip Rating: | | | | |
Alphabets. Here, I find myself willing to beg your attention for a few seconds! .... May I? As you are quite aware nations use the names or sounds of the first letters of their alphabet to name it. e.g. Greeks used [ Alpha+Beta : ALPHABET]. The Arabs used the names [Aleph+Ba : ALEPHBA], or the sounds of the first four letters [ Aleph + Ba + Gim + Dal : ABGaDyeah]. But How Greeks got such characters and relevant sounds? Egyptian hieroglyphics and Sumerian cuneiforms were the only known forms of writing in ancient times. Both scripts, though separately created, used picture writing. Eventually, pictures or signs represented sounds. By about 1200 B.C., the Phoenicians had developed symbols which in time became a real alphabet from which the Greeks derived theirs. The characters represent in all probability an early forking from the Sinaitic, which constitutes the connecting link between the Phoenician alphabet and its Egyptian ancestor. The Egyptian symbol for the ox head was given the Semitic name Aleph and was sounded as "A", to get it: Flip ‘A’ vertically ! Imagine an ox head with its two horns! The symbol for house became Bet and was sounded as "B". The symbol for Camel’s head and neck became Gamal and was called Gamma and sounded as “G” …. …and so on: for door Dalet and sounded D, for water Mem, Myah and sounded M to get it imagine the water waves*, for teeth Sin and sounded S, compare Greek Sigma and the teeth*. Leave a Comment Directions: Shatby / Silsila
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| | | | new Library of Alexandria: The Revival of Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Tip Rating: | | | | |
It is another sample of the international sincere co-orporation.* The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is located on a magnificent site in the Eastern Harbor, facing the sea on the north, and Alexandria University Complex on its southern side. It overlooks the Silsilah Peninsula. It is very close to the location of the Old Library in the Brucheion (the Ancient Royal Quarter), as verified by the 1993 archeological survey. The Library of Alexandria complex includes: the Main Library, Young Peoples' Library, Library for the Blind, Planetarium, Science Museum, Calligraphy Museum, Alexandria Archeological Museum, International School of Information Studies (ISIS), Conservation and Restoration Laboratory, Conference Center of Alexandria and Ancillary Services, Multipurpose Rooms and Exhibition areas. Leave a Comment Directions: Shatby / Silsila
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