The late fourth century A.D. the Roman Empire began to crumble.
Alexandria, in the province of Egypt, still retaining some of its luster...
...possessed one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world:...
the legendary lighthouse, and the biggest library known.
The library was a not only cultural but a religious symbol...
...a place where the pagans worshiped their ancestral gods.
The traditional pagan worship in the city now coexisted...
...with the Jews, and an unstoppable religion up to now banned,...
...Christianity.