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Alexandria, Egypt 31 º 12 '31.86 "N, 29 ° 54' 32.93''E

In the third century BC Ptolemy I created a library in Alexandria that eventually came to house up to 700,000 volumes, making it the largest in the world in his time .

One night towards the end of the third century AD, a mob burned the library of Alexandria, founded about 500 years ago by Ptolemy I, king of Egypt and brilliant general of Alexander the Great. Hundreds of thousands of papyrus scrolls and guarding not only the most important collection of literature, poetry, philosophy, science, history dramae Greek, but also treasures of other cultures were consumed by fire in what is considered, until today, the greatest loss to human knowledge. The library is certainly one of the most enduring metaphors of culture and knowledge secret. In his books lascenizas eternal mystery is hidden the wisdom impregnable.

In 1987 came out an ambitious cultural project to build a new library to help recover a mythic enclave. This was 1,600 years after the disappearance of those great collections of knowledge. Work successfully completed on 31 December 1996.

The building, designed by Norwegian architect Snohetta, proved a huge cylinder of concrete, glass and granite brought from Aswan to the front, ready with calligraphic carvings on most of the world's languages. The building is located on the waterfront of Alexandria, a few feet from where it is assumed that it was the old library. It has an area of \u200b\u200b36,770 meters square with a height of 33 meters. Egypt offers a pillared hall, supported by concrete columns and hardwood, located in the center of the building, designed for reading, with a capacity of 2,000. Sucubierta is cylindrical, and made a tribute to the Egyptian god Ra, the god of the Sun This cover is designed and constructed so that the combination of aluminum and glass filters the light into the space, while projecting out into the Mediterranean as a reminder of the famous lighthouse of Alexandria.

is estimated that the number of books can reach twenty million, so far has about 200,000, most of these donations. There are 50,000 maps, 10,000 manuscripts, 50,000 rare books and multimedia in addition to 10,000 and 50,000 audio visual media.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (official website in English)