Alexandria Fun Fact

The great library and museum of Alexandria was established by Ptolemy I in 290 BC. and flourished under the Prolemies and through the Roman Period.

The remarkable collection of manuscripts brought fame to the city on the Nile as the literary and scientific capital of the Mediterranean.

Among the first known libraries established by a state for the promotion of literature and science, by 250 BC., the number of rolls reached 532,000--equivalent to 100,000 modern books.

The scholars of the day made Alexandria, the city founded by Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, the intellectual capital of the Greek world.