We visit the home of the most famous Greek poet you’ve never heard of
Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...
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An Ancient Library in Alexandria Could be the Future of the Blockchain
What if someone told you that the future direction of the Internet is about to be influenced not by Palo Alto, Beijing, or the multi-stakeholder groups of the United Nations, but by an ancient ...
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How our libraries and archives are dying and why we should care
In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million ...
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From ancient emperors to modern presidents, leaders have used libraries to cement their legacies
Like the Ulpian Library itself, they continued the long tradition of Hellenistic public libraries, established by the most famous library of antiquity: the Library of Alexandria ... conquered ...
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Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is crumbling into the sea at an unprecedented rate
In the past 20 years, 280 buildings in this 2,300-year-old port city — known for being the birthplace of Cleopatra and the ancient home of the famed Library of Alexandria — have collapsed due ...