Alexandria Library Tapestries
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Description: Library of Alexandria - The Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.
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Description: Alexander The Great - Although often misquoted, it is believed the phrase references Plutarch's essay On the Tranquility of Mind, in which part of the essays Moralia states: "Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"
