The Lost City Of Knowledge: What Life Was Like In Ancient Alexandria | Metropolis | Timeline

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Alexandria, a royal Greek city in the land of the Pharaohs. Along the sandy banks of the Nile delta on the African Mediterranean coast, the most powerful metropolis of its time rose from virtually nothing. The Hellenistic culture mingled with the legacy of the Pharaohs and bore the fruits of a glorious new heritage.

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  2. The assessments of the following are revelatory.
    British historian & scholar, Arthur Stanley Tritton
    British – American historian Bernard Lewis
    British philosopher & historian Bertrand Russell

    English historican Alfred J. Butler is one of the first scholars in the western world to have written extensively on the conquests of Egypt.

    Indian scholar D. P. Singhal

    Ruth Stellhorn Mackensen

    The late Emeritus Professor Of Semitic Literature Princeton University, Philip K. Hitti

    English historian & scholar Edward Gibbon

    Diana Delia

    The book, “The Library Of Alexandria, Centre Of Learning In The Ancient World” written by the Emeritus Professor Roy Macleod.

    Contemporary scholar Robert Barnes, who is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University, with interests in ancient philosophy & religion, & in bibliography & the history of libraries. He too comments on the Alexandrian Library.
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  17. Aparently the library of alexandria had information on botany and the origins of some rose breeds etc..things that are lost due to the fire during the egyptian fight against the greeks ..absolutely tragic.

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  18. OMG. The planning, execution and maintenance of these ancient works is unrivalled, except for a few cities (metropolis) around the globe. Rome, Persepolis, Mohenjadaro and Harappa (in india) come to mind.

    These cities just didn't spring up like magic. The precursors of human civilizations must have taken at least a millennium to experiment, innovate and finalise, to pass on the knowledge for these cities.

    Thanks to YouTube that you can watch and learn from anywhere.

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  24. Is this historically accurate and thorough? Agnodiki is debated whether or not she was a real person, seems to be quite a bit of content on this questionable topic. More relevant topics would be as to why wasn't Cleopatra mentioned, why wasn't there a discussion on the city falling into the Mediterranean, and why wasn't there any discussion on the excavations in the harbor? Those findings are significant.

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