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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. [10] The idea of a universal library in Alexandria may have been proposed ...
- Any written works
- National library
- Possibly during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–246 BC)
2 days ago · Hypatia [a] (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) [1] [4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. [5] Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrian female ...
- March 415 AD (aged 45–65), Alexandria, Province of Egypt, Eastern Roman Empire
- Western philosophy
2 days ago · In Strabo's time (latter half of the 1st century BC), the principal buildings were as follows, enumerated as they were to be seen from a ship entering the Great Harbour. The Royal Palaces , filling the northeast angle of the town and occupying the promontory of Lochias, which shut in the Great Harbour on the east.
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- 331 BC
- 5 m (16 ft)
- Egypt
5 days ago · London in A.D. 43. South-eastern Britain was overrun by the troops of the Roman emperor Claudius in A.D. 43. Whether London was founded under the new régime, or whether the Roman city developed round a pre-Claudian nucleus, is an old problem which is still a new one.
4 days ago · EARLY MEDIEVAL CHESTER 400-1230. Sub-roman and early english chester. The 10th-century refortification and reoccupation. Chester and the west saxon rulers, 907-40. The hiberno-norse community. The mint and trade in the 10th century. Chester and the ealdormen and earls of mercia. Chester in 1066. Chester and the anglo-norman earls.
5 days ago · EARLY STEPNEY. Stepney covered almost all the area between the suburbs of the City of London and the river Lea, the eastern boundary of Middlesex, until the early 14th century when the first of several daughter parishes was created. Partly built up in the Middle Ages and great in size, it served many economic functions, with contrasting social ...
