English | March 3, 2025 | ASIN: B0DZ6Q2GXX | 253 pages | EPUB | 27 Mb
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Did you know the Library of Alexandria may still lie buried - with scrolls that could rewrite human history?
From Alexander's divine vision ✅ to Mamluk cannons sinking wisdom into the sea ✅ - this explosive chronicle reveals how a city of genius became a graveyard of empires.
You'll discover:- Why Ptolemy I ✅ paid 10,000 talents to hijack Alexander's corpse - turning Alexandria into a cult of the dead.
- How Archimedes' stolen war machines ✅ protected the harbor - while scholars inside debated infinity.
- The night Christian mobs butchered Hypatia ✅ - philosopher, astronomer, and paganism's last beacon.
- Caliph Omar's chilling verdict on the Library: If it agrees with the Quran, burn it. If not, definitely burn it.
"Let no foreigner call himself Egyptian! The Nile's gifts belong only to blood-born sons of Pharaoh!"
- Anti-Greek rioters (203 BC), burning quarters of Alexandria while Ptolemy V hid.
Reader's Verdict
"I smelled salt and papyrus on every page! The depth on Cleopatra's naval warfare - and exactly how Rome plundered the Museion - left me breathless. Scholarship with the soul of a thriller. ★★★★★"
- Professor Marco Bianchi (Mediterranean Studies, University of Bologna)
Why Alexandria's Ghosts Haunt Humanity
It exposes truths buried by 2,300 years of lies:
- How Jewish rebels fought Romans street-by-street ✅ - their blood staining the Great Synagogue's mosaics.
- Why Cleopatra tested poisons on slaves ✅ before embracing the asp.
- The Arab general who wept seeing the Library burn ✅ - then built a mosque with its stones.
- Crusader ships looting Pharos Lighthouse ruins ✅ - carrying granite saints to Venice.
Taste the ashes of genius: Walk marble colonnades debating with Aristotle, smell incense in Serapeum's doomed sanctuary, and hear Mamluk hammers smashing Ptolemy's tomb to build a fort.
The History Of Alexandria: From The Ptolemies To Mamluk Rule
