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1. Library Of Alexandria

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   The Library of Alexandria was the principal library and associated research institution of the city of Alexandria in Ptolemaic Egypt, established in the 3rd century BCE. It was conceived not merely as a storage facility for papyri but as a universal library intended to house a copy of every known text extant in the Hellenistic world, and perhaps beyond. Its institutional companion, the Mouseion(or Museum), function…