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To: SteveH
A Polish-Egyptian team has unearthed the site of the fabled University of Alexandria, home of Archimedes, Euclid and a host of other scholars from the era when Alexandria dominated the Mediterranean.

OK, that's half the battle. Now if we can just bury some of our modern universities for a couple thousand years...

8 posted on 05/10/2004 4:19:54 AM PDT by TheyConvictedOglethorpe
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To: TheyConvictedOglethorpe
Now if we can just bury some of our modern universities for a couple thousand years...

But then, who would want to dig them up?

13 posted on 05/10/2004 1:19:32 PM PDT by yhwhsman ("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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