A decade of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

[Winged Isis]

An interesting article; too long to cut and paste.
"No other library in the world today courts as much international awe and controversy as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina – the resurrected library of Alexandria that was unveiled ten years ago to commemorate its forebear lost in antiquity to a fire. A UNESCO project that started off as an idea by Alexandrian academics in the 1970s quickly gained pace with the aim of becoming “the fourth pyramid”, as the toppled president Hosni Mubarak put it, and endowing the “Mediterranean region with a center of cultural and scientific excellence.”

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent ... bliot.aspx

[Horus]

WI, I have edited your post to include a small sample from the article as we try to avoid pasting links without a description.

[Winged Isis]

Okey dokey, H, didn't know that; was opting for brevity and thought the title was self-explanatory.

[Horus]

It is, but understandably Keefy likes links to have a bit of information with them

[Ra-Mont]

If only we could have the original Alexandrian Library back, complete with all of the texts it held before Christian fanatics put it to the torch. Mmm...

[Horus]

I agree and often wonder just what wonderful accounts and historical records were lost to us for ever, just another example of religion destroying anything that does not fit into its own belief system.

[LovelyLadyLux]

Hopefully as we enter this age of technology we'll be able to 'cyber' capture all existing documents so as to be able to preserve them 'off-site' - as in maybe a world community library.

All existing brick and mortar libraries would continue but it would be wonderful to have electronic copies of all world literature available.