Andrew Schulz
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If you didn't come in from a side gate or whatever, but if you entered in the primary way that the city was designed, especially for like political figures, like the first time, you know, some king or something is brought in from, say, Cyprus, like a sippercut.
Say a Cyprus king is brought into Alexandria on a royal visit.
He's going to be given the royal tour.
He's going to go underneath the lighthouse, and he's going to look at this massive tower that doesn't look like anything else.
That's the other thing you've got to think.
There isn't anything else like that in their world.
I mean, there is amazing architecture, but that is something completely different, this massive tower with this burning flame on top of it.
Exactly.
So he's going to come in this port.
A little bit, let's say, up to where you see that dock kind of coming down the middle.
That might, of course, they draw these in all different types of ways.
To the right, far to the right.
up a little bit.
Oh, just go to the middle of the image.
Up in the center, I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that might be the main dock.
Diagrams of Alexandria are drawn in so many different ways, but you would pull up to that dock, you'd walk down it, you may or may not enter the library, but you might walk around it, and then you would be on Soma Road or Canopic Way, but it's the main two streets that go down the center of the city.
Now, on your right side,
you would have, let's say theoretically, on your right side, you would have the Library of Alexandria.