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fort of Qaitbey: The fort at the place of the ancient lighthouse
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Ancient Alexandria hosted one of the wonders of the world , the lighthouse which was the worlds first "skyscraper" Today you find at this spot a fort which looks quite recently restored.
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Soon after Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. worlds largest library was established which finally had more than a million of papyri and was by far the most important storage of literature and documents in the ancient world.
About 1700 years after this old library vanished a great new library was built not far from the place of the original one to remind of the glorious past. This new library is intended to host finally 5 millions of books and I do not remember how many Terabytes of data. The library provides also many hundreds of up to date multimedial working places for the users and all other facilities you can expect today in a perfect leading modern library. But I was shocked, there were only extremely few users.
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Kuznetsov_Sergey Sun Oct 7, 2007 06:45 UTC
Thanks Lothar for refreshing sweet memories about this beautiful place! Really King Faruk's garden and Palace are wonderful as well as the quey. Excellent page! | matcrazy1 Sat Jan 7, 2006 01:26 UTC
Excellent information and amazing pictures. Wow, this great, new library looks fantastic. | Rumiya Wed Jul 6, 2005 07:07 UTC
Thank you for your mail very much, I'm planning Hurghada. Wonderful Egypt pages!!! | globetrott Fri Apr 29, 2005 20:01 UTC
great infos & pics ! I remember Farkuk's gardens and all the smells of the local markets close to the cruise-port ! I never heared of the popes residing in Alexandria... |
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