In 47 B.C., during the war of the Roman conquest of Egypt in which Caesar and Cleopatra on one side fought against the pharaoh Ptolemy XIII on the other, the Library of Alexandria, the largest library in the ancient world with over 700,000 volumes, was completely destroyed in an enormous fire. This fire was probably started by the troops of the pharaoh, who was himself a descendant of the same Ptolemaic dynasty that had founded the library some 300 years earlier. In the conflagration, thousands of poetic, scientific and historical works of the Greco-Roman world were destroyed and no trace of them survives.
In 1988, UNESCO entered into a partnership with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the international community in the historic task of reviving the world's first universal library, the Library of Alexandria or Bibliotheca Alexandrina which was inaugurated officially the 16th October 2002.
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Sterling silver,
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Resin
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Cartridge,
Converter
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Gold 18K
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Fine,
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Broad,
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Oblique medium,
Oblique broad,
Stub
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