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The Library of Alexandria: Knowledge Lost and Remembered
亚历山大图书馆：失落又不朽的知识圣殿
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Founded in the 3rd century BCE, the Library of Alexandria aimed to collect every book in the known world.亚历山大图书馆建于公元前3世纪，旨在收藏当时已知世界的全部典籍。
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Scholars from Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia worked there, translating texts and writing commentaries.来自希腊、埃及和美索不达米亚的学者在此工作，翻译文献并撰写评注。
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They cataloged scrolls by subject, invented punctuation, and measured Earth’s circumference accurately.他们按主题编目纸卷，发明标点符号，并精确测算出地球周长。
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Fire, war, and neglect damaged parts over centuries—no single ‘great fire’ destroyed it all at once.火灾、战乱与疏于维护在数百年间逐步损毁馆藏，并非一场‘大火’瞬间焚尽全部。
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Most scrolls were papyrus rolls, fragile and hard to preserve without climate control.大部分纸卷为莎草纸制成，质地脆弱，若无恒温恒湿环境极难保存。
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We know about its work through later writers who quoted or summarized its lost books.我们通过后世作家对那些失传典籍的引述或摘要，了解其学术成果。
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Its spirit lives on in modern universities and digital archives that seek universal access to knowledge.其精神延续至今，体现于追求知识普遍可及的现代大学与数字档案馆。
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Today, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina stands near the ancient site as both memorial and active research center.今日，亚历山大图书馆（Bibliotheca Alexandrina）矗立于古址附近，既是纪念地，也是活跃的研究中心。