Over the past decade, the rate at which buildings have collapsed along the ancient ... buildings around Alexandria between 2001 and 2021, and compared satellite images from between 1974 and ...

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but by an ancient library in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, circa 283 BC? Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge.