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A Short History of the World

Chapter 27 THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA

Word Count: 1567    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

over most of the Persian dominions. In the dynastic disputes that followed the death of Xerxes, a band of ten thous

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