They went up in flames, thousands of original work by some of the world’s greatest thinkers, not a single scroll survived. Today, 1600 years after the destruction of the great library, Alexandria has built a new library, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the spirit of the original. Ismail Serageldia is its first director.

“It is certainly a dream that most of humanity has cherished the celebration of universal knowledge. A S tolerance respect for science and for the contrariant view. All of these values are values have lifted to us to the stay.”

This port city is a crossroad of three continents, a natural place for people and cultures to converge, just as it was when it was founded in 332 B.C. For 700 years, ancient Alexandria flourished as a center of learning. But the library site share of troubles. In 48 B.C. Julius Caesar invaded the city and accidentally torched part of the library. Over the next few centuries, Alexandria’s glory faded and historian still not sure how the library vanished completely. That event may have helped ushering the Dark Ages by arising centuries of precious knowledge. The loss still haunts us today.

The thing you can never have again is the Literature and poetry, it's almost all the works of Shakespeare had been/had disappeared except two or three.

In the late 1980s, the Egyptian government along with the United Nations decided to build a new library as a center for research and the open exchange for ideas. When the library opened, Greeks helped with antiquities, the French with the science museum, and Americans with some of the most advanced computer systems in the world. Italians worked with Egyptians to preserve real manuscripts. This one is about five hundred years old. Ultimately, the original library collected some 500,000 scrolls although tens of thousands of books lie in the shelves. Today the library isn't trying to gather the entire intellectual legacy of humankind under one roof, instead it’s building special collections on Egypt, the middle east and Islam. And in the ancient tradition, the Bibliotheca will try to attract researchers and scholars, and anyone eager to learn. In this so-called capital of memory, the spirit of ancient library is alive and well, and this town is fair proof.

 


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