Intellectual Life in Alexandria
Egypt

Intellectual Life in Alexandria


http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/726/heritage.htm
"The Polish mission at Kom Al-Dikka in Alexandria has made several exciting finds over the years, but their latest discovery hard on the heels of the establishment of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has set tongues buzzing. Grzegorz Majcherek, director of the Polish-Egyptian mission which has been excavating at Kom Al-Dikka for the past 40 or more years, insists that overzealous journalists have rather too hastily linked this latest discovery in Alexandria to the ancient library. "
A detailed description of the recently discovered lecture halls, and what archaeologists have managed to conclude from them.




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