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House of Scribes
The house of scribes is a repository for many scrolls and texts, many of which survived the burning of the Great Library.
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Please enter and make yourself at home with some cooling refreshments. My scribal servants will tend to your academic needs. There are many papayri and ancient scrolls to read including those gathered from the far ends of the Empire.
During and after the time of Alexander the Great, after whom Alexandria is named, the Greek empire was opened up as far east as India and many texts, manuscripts, scrolls and parchments were collected from faraway. After Alexander's death in 323 BC, his successor as ruler of Egypt, Ptolemy, was determined to make the city the most important in the Greek world. And as part of this, it became a great centre of science, medicine and learning. Ptolemy sent agents all over the Greek world to acquire new texts, and visiting ships were obliged by law to leave their manuscripts to be copied. As Alexander himself had wished, a great library was built to house them all. And for over half a millennium, it gathered together some 700,000 volumes, including the most comprehensive body of medical texts in ancient history. That is, until our great library was destroyed by fire. Many Academics, philosophers and scribes resided near the great library and the scribes in this house have their own story to tell about those times and of the texts they managed to preserve...
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