Episode 23 The Last Library of Alexandria

from History, Myth & Fiction Storytelling · host Andy Taylor

The Library of Alexandria—its very name echoes like a lost dream. Built in the ancient Egyptian city under the reign of Ptolemy II, it was said to hold hundreds of thousands of scrolls: knowledge gathered from Greece, India, Mesopotamia, and beyond. It was a sanctuary of wisdom, a place where the thoughts of countless civilizations rested side by side. Yet history tells us it was lost, consumed in fire and neglect, leaving humanity to wonder what vanished with it.

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