The Vanished Library - A Wonder of the Ancient World.pdf torrent

The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World
University of California | 1989 | 0520073045 | English | 220 pages | PDF | 16 MB

The Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, has haunted Western culture for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt–successors of Alexander the Great–had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written under one roof, and the story of the universal library and its destruction still has the power to move us