Thursday 11 March 2010
Alexandria is only two hours north of Cairo by train, so Ryan and I took a day trip up there today.
And no, it's not that library, but it stands where they believe the old one stood, and they're trying to recreate the spirit of scholarship and openness and all that the old one stood for. Inside are millions of books, rare collections, museums, research centers, a planetarium, conferences, classes, art exhibitions, and all kinds of other academic goodness. The outside is covered with carvings of all the writing systems ever used in human history - cool, huh?
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