The Alexandrian Library

Founded by Alexander the Great in 300 BC, and destroyed around 415 AD, the Alexandrian Library was THE repository of ancient wisdom and knowledge. Collectors were sent to all parts of the world to gather and copy volumes. It was estimated that half a million books comprised its collection at its height. It's demise brought on the dark ages. Among the great scholars who worked there were:

1. Aristarchus--who developed the first detailed sun-centered picture of the solar system 1,800 years before Copernicus.
2. Erastosthenes--who mapped the earth and accurately determined its size.
3. Hipparchus--who accurately determined the cycle of the precession of the equinoxes. This yielded the concept of the Piscean Age of 2,160 years, and the Aquarian Age (perhaps beginning soon) of equal length.
4. Claudius Ptolemy--the father of modern astrology (The Almagest) and the detailed earth centered system.
5. Hypatia 370-415 AD--a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and spokesperson for the library. She was known for her beauty and knowledge, and her refusal to marry. Fanatical Christians, 'inspired' by Cyril, archbishop of Alexandria, threw her from her chariot, scoured the flesh from her bones with abalone shells, burned her remains, and destroyed her works. Later, the library itself was burned down.

All that is physically left of the Alexandrian Library is the Serapeum, a temple to the god, Serapis. Some say that Serapis Bey, as many now call him, was the Atlantean architect of the Great Pyramid. Had not the volumes stored there been lost--many of which were the only copies--who knows the heights civilization might have achieved. ALEXANDRIAN BOOKS dedicates itself to the preservation of the ETERNAL WISDOM, and to the cause that writings and ideas of great worth may never vanish from the earth.

Serapis Bey