Exactly. I need to remember to choose the right illustrations, sorry. [Ahem] And it's Alexandria, I think. They said it was a grand thing, definitely, and that a lot were lost. We only really have rumors to go off of, the fire that took the city claiming so much we couldn't be sure.
If I were to guess, though, no it didn't. It probably held most of the knowledge of the part of the world our people were part of. The isles and the mainland are what they call Europe. They and north Africa across the sea to the south were most of what the Egyptians had contact with. I doubt there was much from Asia and nothing from South Africa or the Americas.
They seemed to know that they existed, but theirs were worlds apart. The Earth is much larger than you know, Grainne.
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If I were to guess, though, no it didn't. It probably held most of the knowledge of the part of the world our people were part of. The isles and the mainland are what they call Europe. They and north Africa across the sea to the south were most of what the Egyptians had contact with. I doubt there was much from Asia and nothing from South Africa or the Americas.
They seemed to know that they existed, but theirs were worlds apart. The Earth is much larger than you know, Grainne.