In 48 BC, Caesar, the commander-in-chief of Rome, chased Pompeii into Egypt after the victory in the Battle of Fasaro, and then helped Queen Cleopatra VII fight for the throne, and set fire to the enemy's fleet and port when fighting with his brother. The fire spread to Alexandria, causing the library to suffer and all the books to be destroyed.
In 48 BC, Caesar attacked Egypt, and the library of Alexandria was destroyed by war. At the end of the 3rd century, the rest was destroyed by the civil war under Ye Olian.
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The ancient Alexandria Library, built in the early Ptolemy Dynasty in the 3rd century BC, was the largest library in the world at that time, with a collection of more than 500,000 volumes, including literature, science and technology, art, philosophy and other fields.
It attracts famous scientists, philosophers, thinkers and artists from all over the world, such as Archimedes and Euclid, who also come here to study, give lectures, write books and engage in other academic exchange activities.
The present Alexandria Library was rebuilt after 1995, covering an area of 40,000 square meters. It is not only a key construction project in Egypt, but also a major scientific research and construction project of UNESCO in the world. Its shape is selected from the designs of 77 countries.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Alexander library