Item from civilization by Firaxis Games / 2K
The ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge, containing hundreds of thousands of scrolls from every civilization on earth.
The Great Library is both a building and an idea: the idea that all human knowledge can be gathered in one place, organized, and made available to anyone who knows how to read. Cleopatra has made it a condition of trade agreements that ships passing through Alexandria's harbor must surrender any scrolls they carry to be copied before being returned. In Civilization terms, the Great Library is a wonder that grants free technologies and an extra Great Scientist slot. In roleplay terms, it is the greatest concentration of human knowledge that has ever existed — and it is a political asset as much as a cultural one.
A colonnaded complex of white marble near Alexandria's royal harbor, its reading rooms lit by high windows and oil lamps. Scholars move between the stacks with the focused intensity of people who know they are in the presence of something irreplaceable. The smell of old papyrus and cedar oil is overwhelming.
Also known as: The Library of Alexandria, The Great Library, The Mouseion