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Designed as a solar disc that descends into water. The original
library was founded in the 3rd century BCE and soon developed into the largest collection of scripts in
the world. As many as 500,000 texts are supposed to have been here. Today visit exhibitions, the
antiquities museum, the manuscript collection, as well as the planetarium.
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