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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221263228
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 384
Size : 135 x 215 mm
The lost library

Release date : 11/05/2023
47 BC. Caesar face Ptolemy’s troops in battle. The victorious imperator takes advantage of the general confusion to seize the library of Alexandria: 700,000 books, to which all the knowledge of humanity is consigned. To possess knowledge, he knows, is to have absolute power.
Caesar summons a team capable of accomplishing...
47 BC. Caesar face Ptolemy’s troops in battle. The victorious imperator takes advantage of the general confusion to seize the library of Alexandria: 700,000 books, to which all the knowledge of humanity is consigned. To possess knowledge, he knows, is to have absolute power.
Caesar summons a team capable of accomplishing this perilous and crazy undertaking: moving papyrus, copper and baked clay plates, wooden slates… without anyone knowing, to a remote and invisible place. To Rome? Impossible. The capital is in the grip of a civil war. So where will it be possible to preserve this treasure, which everyone will think is gone forever once the building goes up in flames? During this unprecedented and secret adventure, alchemy, magic and science are intertwined.
Two thousand years later, a young woman decides to solve an archaeological enigma about underground passages with a strange layout, which may lead her to the Library of Alexandria...
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EAN : 9782221263228
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 384
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont