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Title: | Bibliotheca Alexandrina: past, present and future |
Editors: | Gutman, Kelly Gutman, RIchard Serageldin, Ismail |
Year: | 2003 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Alexandria |
Publisher: | Bibliotheca Alexandrina |
Geographic term: | Egypt |
Subjects: | libraries cultural history Antiquity documentary films (form) videos (form) |
Abstract: | Short film which traces the history of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which was launched in 288 B.C. Its slow disappearance began with a fire in 48 B.C and by 400 A.D. the library had vanished. 1600 years later it came to life again with support from Unesco. [Abstract reproduced from video-dvd] |