Ancient halls of Alexandria found

[Hand of Evil]

CAIRO, Egypt - Polish archaeologists have unearthed 13 lecture halls believed to be the first traces ever found of ancient Egypt’s University of Alexandria, the head of the project said Wednesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5069375/

 

[SSquirrel]

CAIRO, Egypt - Polish archaeologists have unearthed 13 lecture halls believed to be the first traces ever found of ancient Egypt’s University of Alexandria, the head of the project said Wednesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5069375/

Wonder if they'll get uber lucky and some of the documents survived the razing. THAT would be the truly significant finding.

Hagen

 

[Bloodstone Press]

From the article:

The lecture halls, with a capacity of 5,000 students, are part of the 5th-century university,

Wow.

Can you imagine sitting in class with 4,999 other students in 5th-century Egypt?

 

[Zappo]

Oh, they probably flogged people who forgot to turn off their cellphone, or something like that.

 

[Ashwyn]

Oh, they probably flogged people who forgot to turn off their cellphone, or something like that.

They sound like my kind of people. Man, that is really cool. I think it'd be awesome to be an archaeologist on digs like this.

 

[Cador]

So they've found the Great Library of Alexandria? Oh dear - Egypt will be getting a load of technological advances now...