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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity. The idea of reviving the old library dates back to 1974, when a committee set up by Alexandria University selected a plot of land for its new library. Construction work began in 1995 and, after some US$220 million had been spent, the complex was officially inaugurated on 16 October 2002. In 2010, the library received a donation of 500,000 books from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The gift makes the Bibliotheca Alexandrina the sixth-largest Francophone library in the world.
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Depicts an outer scene of the modern library and the older one, in front of them a sea and one arch above them with inscriptions in Arabic and English. إحياء مكتبة الأسكندرية-مصر |
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Denomination divides dates, the country name "Arab Republic of Egypt" above and abbreviation of state name (A.R.E.) below. جمهورية مصر العربية |
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