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Posted: 17 Jul 2024

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A reconstruction of Alexandria, looking west down the Canopic Way. The colonnade ran the length of the city, offering protection from the sun as well as a highly effective conduct for rumor. Set at the edge of an impossibly blue sea, Cleopatra’s Alexandria ranked as “the first city of the civilized world,” its fashion capital and seat of learning.

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 Dinesh
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Alexandria’s ninety-foot-wide main avenue left visitors speechless, its scale unmatched in the ancient world. You could lose a day exploring it from end to end. Linked with delicately carved columns, silk awnings, and richly painted facades, the Canopic Way could accommodate eight chariots driving abreast. The city’s primary side streets too were nearly twenty feet wide, paved with stories, expertly drained, and partially lit at night. From its central crossroads – a ten-minutes walk from the palace – a forest of sparkling limestone colonnades extended as far as the eye could see. On the city western side lived most of its Egyptian population, many of them linen weavers, clustered around the hundred steps that led up to the Serapeum, the third century temple that dominated the city and housed its secondary library… . . . Industry divided neighbourhoods as well: one quarter was devoted to the manufacture of perfumes and to the fabrication of their alabaster pots, another to glassworks.. ~ Page 67
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 Dinesh
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CLEOPATRA ~ A LIFE
18 months ago.

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