The Lost Library of Alexandria: A Forgotten History

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Once upon a time, in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, which was conquered by Alexander the Great, one of the greatest houses of knowledge in the world was founded, known as the Library of Alexandria. This library was a flourishing expression of Hellenistic civilization that developed in various Greek cities outside of Greece. The Ptolemaic dynasty was its architect. Today, no trace of this historic library remains.

On October 16, 2002, a dazzling new library called “Bibliotheca Alexandrina” was founded in the city. At its entrance, a white statue of Demetrius of Phalereus (340 BC-280 BC), the famous librarian of the vanished Library of Alexandria, and a bust of Alexander the Great were placed.

Sakti Sadhan Mukhopadhyay’s book The Lost Library of Alexandria: A Forgotten History is about this vanished library. How was such a house of knowledge built? Why was it founded there? Who were its architects? Who used to come there? Who were the participants in this quest for knowledge? Why did it disappear? A book containing these stories, honest and fake reviews, information, and photos. A vanished library, the Library of Alexandria. This is the first book of its kind in the Bengali language, carefully written and edited for book lovers and scholars.

This brilliant English translation by Jagari Mukherjee will help the book reach out to a wider audience, and, as all good books do, will instruct and delight its readers.

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Sakti Sadhan Mukhopadhyay

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Sakti Sadhan Mukhopadhyay was born in 1951 in the village of Panchra, in his maternal uncle’s hometown. His ancestral village is Jutihati, Keotara, in Purba Bardhaman. He was educated at Jhapandanga Pareshnath Vidyamandir, Pachra Sagar Chandra Rakshit Smriti Vidyamandir, Burdwan Raj College, and the University of Burdwan.He began his professional life as a compounder in a homeopathy dispensary. While working, he completed his M.A. in Bengali Literature and went on to teach at Jangipur College and Khidirpur College. After obtaining a UGC Teacher Fellowship, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta through research. In his village, he was the founder, planner, and organizer of the public library, Jhapandanga Sadharan Pathagar. After retiring from teaching, he served as the Secretary of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad from 2012 to 2016.Sakti Sadhan Mukhopadhyay is a writer and editor of more than thirty-five research-oriented books on Renaissance studies, literary criticism, and related subjects. His first book, Bengali Renaissance in the Light of Italian Renaissance (2000), was followed by works such as Henry Louis Vivian Derozio in the Light of Renaissance (2024) and The Derozio Tree (2025).At present, he is also a member of the editorial board of the literary journal Ebong Jalghari.

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Jagari Mukherjee

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Jagari Mukherjee is a gold medalist in English Literature, a Best of the Net 2018 nominee, a DAAD scholar from Technical University, Dresden, Germany, and a Bear River alumna. Her poems and other creative pieces have been published in different venues both in India and abroad.Her latest book, The Elegant Nobody, was published by Hawakal Publishers in January 2020. She is the winner of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 for Book Review, Poeisis Award for Excellence in Poetry 2019, and also the recipient of Reuel International Prize for Poetry 2019, among other awards. Jagari is a part of the Reviews team at The Blue Nib.

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Genre: History
Language: English
ISBN: 978-93-93063-48-9
Published: 10 December 2025
Pages: 88
Binding: Hardbound
Published by: Virasat Art Publication

Once upon a time, in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, which was conquered by Alexander the Great, one of the greatest houses of knowledge in the world was founded, known as the Library of Alexandria. This library was a flourishing expression of Hellenistic civilization that developed in various Greek cities outside of Greece. The Ptolemaic dynasty was its architect. Today, no trace of this historic library remains.

On October 16, 2002, a dazzling new library called “Bibliotheca Alexandrina” was founded in the city. At its entrance, a white statue of Demetrius of Phalereus (340 BC-280 BC), the famous librarian of the vanished Library of Alexandria, and a bust of Alexander the Great were placed.

Sakti Sadhan Mukhopadhyay’s book The Lost Library of Alexandria: A Forgotten History is about this vanished library. How was such a house of knowledge built? Why was it founded there? Who were its architects? Who used to come there? Who were the participants in this quest for knowledge? Why did it disappear? A book containing these stories, honest and fake reviews, information, and photos. A vanished library, the Library of Alexandria. This is the first book of its kind in the Bengali language, carefully written and edited for book lovers and scholars.

This brilliant English translation by Jagari Mukherjee will help the book reach out to a wider audience, and, as all good books do, will instruct and delight its readers.

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