In the year 331 BC, fresh from his conquest of Egypt, Alexander the Great established a new city in Egypt named after himself.

This new city, situated on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the Nile Delta would go on to become one of the most

important cities in the world and Alexander City is still alive and vibrant today.

Learn more about Alexandria, the Bride of the Mediterranean on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

My audio book recommendation today is The Rise and Fall of Alexandria birthplace of the modern mind by Justin Pollard and

Howard Reed founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek

pharaohs the city of Alexandria at a tight dwarfed both Athens and Rome.

It was a marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent

lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual atmosphere at fostered and the library it produced.

It was here that mankind first discovered that the Earth was not flat,

originated atomic theory, invented geometry,

systematized grammar, translated the Old Testament into Greek,

built the steam engine, and passed their discoveries on the future generations via the written

word.

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notes. To understand Alexandria, we first need to understand Egypt.

If you look at a map of Egypt today, it's like a rectangular postage stamp in the upper right corner of Africa.

However, most of the land which constitutes

Egypt is totally empty. It's a desert. If you look at a nighttime satellite image of

Egypt, all of the lights in the country are located along a line going down the Nile River.

This is where everyone lives, and this fact about Egypt hasn't really changed over thousands of years.

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