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'''The Library''' '''of''' '''[[Alexandria]]''' in Egypt, was once the largest library in the world. It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of [[Egypt]] after his father had set up the temple of the Muses, the Musaeum. | '''The Library''' '''of''' '''[[Alexandria]]''' in Egypt, was once the largest library in the world. It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of [[Egypt]] after his father had set up the temple of the Muses, the Musaeum. | ||
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The Library of Alexandria in Egypt, was once the largest library in the world. It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt after his father had set up the temple of the Muses, the Musaeum.
The Library at Alexandria was conceived largely as an attempt to bring together in Alexandria the whole of the earlier Greek science, art, and literature. At one point the Library held close to fifty thousand books.
The library's destruction remains a mystery.