What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria

Contents:
The Alexandria Project
Introduction
À la Recherche de la Systématisation des Connaissances et du Passage du Concret à l'Abstrait dans l'Égypte Ancienne / Mounir H. Megally
Private Collections and Temple Libraries in Ancient Egypt /Fayza M. Haikal
Earth, Wind, and Fire: The Alexandrian Fire-storm of 48 B.C / William J. Cherf
The Destruction of the Library of Alexandria: An Archaeological Viewpoint / Jean-Yves Empereur
Demise of the Daughter Library / Mostafa A. El-Abbadi
Ce Que Construisent les Ruines / Lucien X. Polastron
The Nag Hammadi 'Library' of Coptic Papyrus Codices / Birger A. Pearson
Learned Women in the Alexandrian Scholarship and Society of Late Hellenism / Maria Dzielska
Synesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism: Patterns of Religious and Cultural Symbiosis / Dimitar Y. Dimitrov
Damascius and the 'Collectio Philosophica': A Chapter in the History of Philosophical Schools and Libraries in the Neoplatonic Tradition / Georges Leroux
Academic Life of Late Antique Alexandria: A View from the Field /Grzegorz Majcherek
The Arab Story of the Destruction of the Ancient Library of Alexandria / Qassem Abdou Qassem
The Arab Destruction of the Library of Alexandria: Anatomy of a Myth / Bernard Lewis
Bibliography
I. Sources
II. Lexical Works
III. Modern Literature