The Middle East, January 1st, 2000
Thousands of years ago, before the West had taken its first faltering steps towards any form of civilisation we would recognise today, the Arabs were proficient in a host of arts and sciences. At the meeting point of three continents -- Asia Africa and Europe -- Egypt has been described as the cradle of civilisations since ancient times. After more than 4000 years of development of the Pharonic culture, the Greek dynasties, begun with the Ptolemies, made it possible for Alexandria to be the world's intellectual and commercial capital. The library they built there, in the fourth century BC be...
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