The Library of Alexandria, which was part of the Alexandrian Museum, did not have bound books but instead contained 700,000 papyrus scrolls that were arranged in piles.
Historians, astronomers, mathematicians, and poets from every part of the Hellenistic world were paid by Egyptian kings to study and teach at the museum in Alexandria.
Founded around 280 BCE by the Ptolemy dynasty, the Alexandrian Museum provided gardens, banquet halls, and reading rooms where scholars met regularly.the alexandrian museum