The Great Library of Alexandria?
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From its Gate of the Sun to its Gate of the Moon, temples and palaces lined its spacious streets. Marbled columns and glittering statues dazzled visitors. Alexandria witnessed not only the romance of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra but also the genius of the greatest mathematicians and boasted the world‟s first and greatest public library, a library whose aim was to contain a copy of every book ever written.[2]
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