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By Roy MacLeod

The Library of Alexandria used to be one of many maximum cultural adornments of the past due historic international, containing millions of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and paintings and artifacts of old Egypt. This ebook demonstrates that Alexandria became--through the modern popularity of its library--a element of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian tradition that drew students and statesmen from during the historical global. It additionally explores the histories of Alexander the nice and of Alexandria itself, the best urban of the traditional global. This new paperback variation bargains basic readers an obtainable advent to the background of this incredible but nonetheless mysterious establishment from the time of its beginning as much as its tragic destruction.

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20 In other cases, the upper edge of a tablet was often inscribed so that, when the tablets were standing like file cards, one could read a date, sometimes a summary of the transaction recorded, and occasionally the name of the scribe responsible. At Mari in Syria, small tablets marked with a red ochre stripe seem to represent economic texts, the contents of which had been noted and entered into a larger, summary ledger text. 21 Another archival device which should be mentioned is an intrinsic one, namely tablet shape.

10 In spite of much investigation elsewhere, it still seems true to say that writing was invented, not broadly in southern Mesopotamia, but very specifically at the site of Uruk, prompting one Sumerologist to speak of 'an' inventor, literatus Sumericus Urukeus, rather than a vague cohort of anonymous early scribes. 11 As many scholars have emphasised in recent years, 12 with an estimated size of over 200 ha. by the late fourth millennium BC, Uruk surpassed all other early urban centres in the region in areal extent and most probably population concentration, and it was here that the pre-conditions for the emergence of writing were most clearly in evidence.

37 But now it is time to turn back towards the west for I have much business to transact if I am to pursue my passion for book trading and 1 need to locate the warehouses in the Emporium and all the ship moorings. Right at the edge of the Harbour stretch the Neoria, the shipyards, which extend as far as the Heptastadium, which is a narrow causeway resting on piles driven into the sea-bed. This man made land bridge is seven stadia (I,400 metres) in length (hence the name Heptastadium) and divides the natural harbour into two separate harbours, the Great Harbour and the Eunostos, and provides easy access to the Island of Pharos.

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