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Alexandria timeline
332 BC
While in Egypt, Alexander founds Alexandria – the best known of the many towns he establishes to spread Greek culture
Marble portrait of Alexander the Great, c.100 BC
British Museum
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322 BC
Alexander's corpse, hijacked by Ptolemy, becomes a sacred relic in Alexandria
c. 300 BC
Euclid, teaching at the museum in Alexandria, writes what becomes Europe's standard textbook on geometry
c. 280 BC
The Jewish community of Alexandria coins the word
diaspora
for Jews living far from Israel
c. 280 BC
The Alexandrian school of medicine develops an alarming form of clinical anatomy – human vivisection
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