More than 2,000 years ago, in Alexandria Egypt, Ptolemy II had a dream - to establish the greatest library the world had known. What emerged was one of the grandest institutions ever built, and the forerunner to all modern libraries. This is the story of the Library of Alexandria. 

Sources

"Libraries in the Ancient World" by Lional Casson

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg

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