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"textContent": "Part I – Alexandria: The City That Invented Knowledge “Long before Oxford, Bologna or Harvard existed, there stood on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast a city where knowledge was treated as the greatest treasure on Earth. It was here that a little girl named Hypatia learned that ideas could outlive empires.” By the time the Roman Empire […]\n\nThe post Hypatia of Alexandria – The Last Light of the Ancient World appeared first on The Middle East Observer.",
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