Alexandrian greek symbol
If we narrowly defined the most known greek symbol of Alexandria Egypt nowadays, the library of Alexandria or “ Bibliotheca Alexandrina” would smoothly standstill.
As a previous blog mentioned about the ptolemaic era and the first person to introduce the idea of building the ancient library was Demetrious Phalerious to king ptolemy the first the the daughter library at the reign of king ptolemy the second, unfortunately; both libraries were destroyed due several incidents and wars happened. As an inspiration, professor Mustafa Alabadi in 1974 introduced the idea of reviving the library again.
Who designed the library? Egypt collaborated with the UNESCO in an international architecture competition and the first place went to A Norwegian Group project called “ Snohetta “ consist of five architects members two Norwegian, one American, one Austrian, and an Egyptian called Ehab Alhabbak.
Having now the cultural plaza which, concerts and outdoor events occurs there and it also holds three building, the planetarium; a documentary displaying all sky technology screen, the main building the library building which is covered with six thousand blocks came all the from Aswan and carved with four thousand letters from 120 different languages including the dead languages, and finally the conferences center.
The library building museums and exhibition for different eras, for instant; pharaonic era, greco-roman era, coptic, and islamic eras.
Museums:
- Antiquities
- Alsadat
- Manuscripts
Permanent Exhibitions:
- Impression of Alexandria
- Ahmed Abdelwahab sculptures
- Shady Abdelsallam
- Mohamed Hassanein Heikal
very intresting topic keep going
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