“They’re afraid she’s going to spend all their money on books for the Library.”
I traveled to Egypt in December 2019 to do research for my Eye of Isis novels, which are set in Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra.


“It’s not about the sewers,” Apollodorus said. “They’re afraid she’s going to spend all their money on books for the Library, in particular books to replace the ones that were lost in the fire when Caesar burned his ships.” — Death of an Eye, 2018

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