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Main reading room, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Main reading room, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Rania al-Bahara, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Alexandria, Egypt, 2002

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  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, worth knowing: In 2002 the Internet Archive signed an agreement making the Bibliotheca Alexandrina a backup of its web archive, with two mirror sites.

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, worth knowing: In 2002 the Internet Archive signed an agreement making the Bibliotheca Alexandrina a backup of its web archive, with two mirror sites.
Source: https://www.bibalex.org/en/project/details?documentid=283
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  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, worth knowing: The Antiquities Museum shows objects dug up on the library's own building site. The library says few museums display finds from the very place they stand on.

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, worth knowing: The Antiquities Museum shows objects dug up on the library's own building site. The library says few museums display finds from the very place they stand on.
Source: https://www.bibalex.org/en/center/details/antiquitiesmuseum
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  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, worth knowing: The library's own FAQ says only one papyrus from the ancient Library of Alexandria is known to remain. It is a scholar's copy of the first lines of satirical wisdom poems.

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, worth knowing: The library's own FAQ says only one papyrus from the ancient Library of Alexandria is known to remain. It is a scholar's copy of the first lines of satirical wisdom poems.
Source: https://www.bibalex.org/en/page/FAQ
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Location

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, location: About 100 yards from where the ancient library stood

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, location: About 100 yards from where the ancient library stood
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Built

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, built: Officially inaugurated 16 October 2002

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, built: Officially inaugurated 16 October 2002
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Architect

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, architect: Snohetta, a Norwegian firm

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, architect: Snohetta, a Norwegian firm
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Size

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, size: Main reading room 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft) on eleven cascading levels

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, size: Main reading room 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft) on eleven cascading levels
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  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, size: Reading room stands beneath a 32-metre-high glass-panelled roof

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, size: Reading room stands beneath a 32-metre-high glass-panelled roof
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Volumes

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, volumes: Shelf space for eight million books

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, volumes: Shelf space for eight million books
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  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, volumes: Held only 500,000 books in 2002

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, volumes: Held only 500,000 books in 2002
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Collection

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, collection: Four museums: Antiquities, Manuscripts, Sadat and History of Science

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, collection: Four museums: Antiquities, Manuscripts, Sadat and History of Science
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Status today

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, status today: Cost more than $200 million

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, status today: Cost more than $200 million
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What happened here

  1. 1974Bibliotheca Alexandrina, founded, 1974: Alexandria University committee selects a site for a new library

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, founded, 1974: Alexandria University committee selects a site for a new library
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  2. 1988Bibliotheca Alexandrina, founded, 1988: UNESCO design competition won by Snohetta

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, founded, 1988: UNESCO design competition won by Snohetta
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  3. 1995Bibliotheca Alexandrina, built, 1995: Construction begins

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, built, 1995: Construction begins
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  4. 2002Bibliotheca Alexandrina, opened, 2002: Officially inaugurated 16 October 2002

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    Bibliotheca Alexandrina, opened, 2002: Officially inaugurated 16 October 2002
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Reading room galleries and sloping roof of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in black and white
Reading room galleries and sloping roof of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in black and white. Original: Mono Abo-Abda Derivative work: Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Reading room galleries and sloping roof of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in black and white. Photo: Original: Mono Abo-Abda Derivative work: Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliotiqa_Alexandria_9_edited.jpg
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Reading room floor seen from a gallery, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Reading room floor seen from a gallery, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Cecioka, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Reading room floor seen from a gallery, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Photo: Cecioka, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliotheca_Alexandrina_06.jpg
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Concrete columns and skylit roof panels inside Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Concrete columns and skylit roof panels inside Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Cecioka, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Concrete columns and skylit roof panels inside Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Photo: Cecioka, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliotheca_Alexandrina_08.jpg
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Carved granite wall and statue, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Carved granite wall and statue, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Ahmed Sherif, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Carved granite wall and statue, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Photo: Ahmed Sherif, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Bibliotheca_Alexandrina.jpg
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Tilted glass roof disc of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria
Tilted glass roof disc of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria. René Dinkel, CC0
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Tilted glass roof disc of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria. Photo: René Dinkel, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliotheca_Alexandrina_(Alexandrie_biblioth%C3%A8que).jpg
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Roof and granite wall of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Roof and granite wall of Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0
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Roof and granite wall of Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt,_Alexandria,_Bibliotheca_Alexandrina.jpg
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