A greatness reborn.(ancient Buddhist statues)(Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
From: The Humanist
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Date: 9/1/2004
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Author: Trent, Brian
It's 2,000 years ago, and a visitor to Egypt is lost. He was visiting the city of Alexandria, a teeming metropolis set in the green, wet Nile Delta overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Now he's stumbling through a maze of dark corridors inside the city's library with an oil lantern as his only guide. The walls are honeycombed with deep slots that hold books and scrolls; he glances at their titles only to move on, searching for a good treatise on mathematics. Before he can shout for a ...
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