The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum:The Glory of Ancient Alexandria

Dr:Hussein Bassir

Ancient Alexandria has a long history deeply rooted in the history of humankind. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum has a wonderful collection of Egyptian monuments. In the center of the ancient royal district of Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has been chosen to revive the ancient Library, which was the beacon of knowledge and culture, a research institute and the substructure of the ancient university. The site surveillance started in the year 1993 and unfolded some demolished architectural elements, which were not in their original site within the debris, where the excavation pits bore hundreds of antiquities which most of them date back to the Hellenistic era. These founds acted as the nuclei of the current Antiquities Museum which contains 1276 artifacts fetched from other museums all over Egypt, to make the display within the museum complete, giving an idea about all civilizations which passed alternatively on Egypt, starting by the Pharaonic era and passing through the Graeco-Roman, Hellenistic, then the Byzantine and finally the Islamic. The museum also includes a collection of sunken antiquities, which were found in the Eastern Harbor and in the district of Abu Qir. The Antiquities Museum inside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is solely unique that it is built within the sancta of a library, which embodies the luster of the world’s most famous library; also, it holds on display the first collection of sunken antiquities worldwide.

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