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2 days ago · The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.
Jul 14, 2024 · The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the entire ancient world. It was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, who were the nine goddesses of the arts in Greek mythology.
Jul 12, 2024 · The existence of the Library of Alexandria is shrouded in mystery and debate, with thin historical evidence supporting its actual existence. Various ancient sources provide conflicting accounts of the library's size, with estimates ranging from 40,000 to 700,000 scrolls.
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2 days ago · Eratosthenes of Cyrene ( / ɛrəˈtɒsθəniːz /; Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
Jul 16, 2024 · The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its...
Jul 19, 2024 · Herophilus and Erasistratus, living in 2 nd century BC Alexandria, may have been helped by the fact that Ptolemaic society had inherited the complex embalming and funerary traditions of ancient Egyptian culture.
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Jul 15, 2024 · Hypatia (born c. 355 ce —died March 415, Alexandria) was a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists.
