Another installment... On our third day, we headed to Alexandria. In another blog entry we will eventually tell you about our dreadful tour guide but the highlight of our day was seeing the new Biblioteca Alexandrina - the new library in honor of the old library at Alexandria. The actual collection was pretty modest but the building was beautiful. Situated with a view of the Mediteranean, the building was covered with examples of every known written alphabet.
The library includes a large cultural center and their website shows that we missed the class on reading hieroglyphics.
The lion head writing was one of our favorites.
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