The Library of Alexandria
Subtitle: Rediscovering the Cradle of Western Culture
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: March 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860644283
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Libraries & information centres; Social history; History: World; Civilization; Ancient - General; Middle East - Egypt; History - General History; Ancient Egypt; Civilization, Classical; Ancient - Egypt; Ancient - Greece; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; Libraries; To 400; Books & Reading; Alexandria; Alexandrian Library; Egypt; History
First sentence: Between 1849 and 1854 Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam recovered roughly 30,000 cuneiform tablets, and fragments thereof, at the Assyrian site of Nineveh in northern Iraq, most in the great mound of Kuyunjik.