Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the original date for the restoration of the ancient Library of Alexandria in a massive project carried out by Egypt in cooperation with the United Nations to construct the new Library of Alexandria in a location close to the old library in the Al-Shatby area of Alexandria. The worldwide cultural celebration started with the opening of the Alexandria Library in 2002, which was originally scheduled to take place on April 23 of that year but was postponed.
A massive effort was carried out by Egypt in collaboration with the UN to revive the ancient Library of Alexandria, the largest library of its time. The library was rebuilt near to the previous location in the city of Shatby.
The Great Library, also known as the Royal Library of Alexandria, was built according to various historical accounts. Some historians claim that Alexander the Great, who is credited with having planned Alexandria for more than two thousand years, built it, while others claim that Ptolemy II adopted the idea and finished it. Batalmius I, who ordered the establishment of the library, is credited with having given the order.
The ancient Library of Alexandria is credited with being the oldest public government library in the ancient world, not the first library in the world, according to the author and researcher Hossam Al-book Haddad’s “The Story of the Ancient Library of Alexandria.”
They were familiar with libraries because they were the behemoth of books and knowledge of the Pharaonic and Greek civilizations, as well as the scene of scientific mingling and intellectual cultural encounters between the sciences of the East and the sciences of the West, which produced the Hellenistic civilization, where Pharaonic and Halinism intermarried.
The book contends that its greatness is also a result of the greatness of those in charge of it, as evidenced by the requirement that every scientist who studies it leave a copy of his books, as well as the fact that it was located in the stronghold of knowledge, the stronghold of the papyrus, and the stronghold of the tools. Finally, and not the last of its scholars from the taboo of politics, religion, gender, race and discrimination, the science in it was for the sake of humanity, for the visiting world or the learner in it is not asked only about his knowledge, neither about his religion nor his nationality, and the number of sages exceeded the hundred in most of the library, they were shining and they were divided into
The book contends that its greatness is also a result of the greatness of those in charge of it, as evidenced by the requirement that every scientist who studies it leave a copy of his books, as well as the fact that it was located in the stronghold of knowledge, the stronghold of the papyrus, and the stronghold of the tools. Finally, though not the last of its scholars from the taboo of politics, religion, gender, race, and discrimination, the science in it was for the benefit of humanity, for the visitor to the world or the learner in it is not asked only about his knowledge, neither about his religion nor his nationality, and the number of sages exceeded one hundred in the majority of the library; they were shining and they were divided into
Why all the fame for Alexandria Library, the lighthouse of the ancient world?
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