A wide colonnade portico running north-south was a monumental setting for the unique academic complex, comprising 22 auditoria, which was built here i
A wide colonnade portico running north-south was a monumental setting for the unique academic complex, comprising 22 auditoria, which was built here in the 6th century AD. It is the only ancient “university” discovered so far in the whole of the Mediterranean area. No wonder that ancient Alexandria, at the time one of the leading centers of education and learning, is nowadays called the “Oxford” of late antiquity Taken @Alexandria, Egypt
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