"I never saw finer ruins in any place else."
- Corneille Le Bruyn, Dutch explorer writing in the year 1702 on the port city of Alexandria
(Clearly Alexandria has been cleaned up a lot since then...I never saw a finer library in my life.)
9.08.2010
Library of Alexandria
A quote from an exhibit inside the library:
"I never saw finer ruins in any place else."
- Corneille Le Bruyn, Dutch explorer writing in the year 1702 on the port city of Alexandria
(Clearly Alexandria has been cleaned up a lot since then...I never saw a finer library in my life.)
"I never saw finer ruins in any place else."
- Corneille Le Bruyn, Dutch explorer writing in the year 1702 on the port city of Alexandria
(Clearly Alexandria has been cleaned up a lot since then...I never saw a finer library in my life.)
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