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library of Alexandria underground scrolls books desks torches ancient 4K arabesque detailed dark old architecture large hall academia ruins untouched overgrown Petra stone wood

library of Alexandria underground scrolls books desks torches ancient 4K arabesque detailed dark old architecture large hall academia ruins untouched overgrown Petra stone wood

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an old library with stone floors and shelves full of books on the walls, in a cave like setting

A library holding thousands upon thousands of ancient Envilian manuscripts of all sorts. Ran by Nora and Watog, the latter who is the last of the Watchers, a race of mole-like fortune tellers. Holds the Stone of Knowledge, which works like a magic hard drive full of Envile's knowledge, and can embue people with intelligence if used right.

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an artistic painting of people in a library

Few people in the ancient world could read or write. Even many kings and emperors needed to employ special scribes to make records of their orders and achievements. Unsurprisingly, then, libraries were few on the ground. But those libraries that did exist were often magnificent. Rulers used them to showcase…

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an artist's rendering of the inside of a building with people working on it

It was widely reported that Polish archaeologists have unearthed thirteen lecture halls that once belonged to an ancient Alexandrian University in ancient Egypt. It is well known that Mouseion, Alexandria's famous ancient University was founded by Ptolemy Lagides (Ptolemy I Soter). He was a Greek general, historian and companion of Alexander the Great. The Ptolemaic Mouseion was conceived of as a cultural center serving the muses – a concept with deep roots in the Greek world. Originally, a…

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a shelf filled with lots of books next to a brick wall covered in dirt and paper

The sands of the Sahara have all but swallowed Chinguetti, a near ghost town found at the end of a harsh desert road in Mauritania, West Africa. Its majority of abandoned houses are open to the elements, lost to the dunes of a desert aggressively expanding southward at a rate of 30 miles per year. W

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