A giant library, nearly as big as the city of Paris.

Thousands of hallways, staircases, artifacts, books, maps, precious gems, strange bottles filled with unknown elixirs and potions etc.

Stain glass windows long covered by the sand.

Shelves of books in every room and passage full of knowledge from past civilizations forgotten by the modern world. Books with theories, equations and cures that would advance society by thousands of years.

An ancient library buried beneath the Sahara Desert

No currency however there are vaults filled with gems and stones worth millions.

All languages ever known to exist and hundreds of others.

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"التقدم من خلال الحكمة"

Arabic for "Progress through Wisdom"

Respect other's culture and walks of life

You may not take a piece of knowledge without leaving a piece behind

Do not exploit the findings of the library. All knowledge is meant to help humanity.

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Algeria

Hot, sandy, windy.

Inside the library it is cool, almost as if there's a permanent thin mist in the air. There is no wind and despite being buried there is minimal dist and sand.

Buried underneath the Sahara Desert

2nd Century BC aka
200 BC-101 BC

Founded in 2nd century BC, a whole century before its sister library "The Library of Alexandria." The Eridel Library was created as an attempt to bring civilizations together for the pursuit of knowledge. The Egyptians built the library over the course of 32 years making it the largest building in history and for 3 centuries the library brought scientists, historians, astronomers, even casual observers together and there they would write their findings down to share with the other civilizations. So much was shared that a century after Eridel was built, a 2nd library had to be constructed, The Library of Alexandria. In order to keep people from using the knowledge to overthrow others, the Egyptians (in secret) had a necromancer by the name of Aristomenes to cast a spell over the library. If anyone broke one of the laws, the library would be destroyed and its sister forgotten. Around the 3rd century of the libraries existence a man by the name Ptolemy stole a small, solid gold statue of a beetle he meant to sell from the Library of Alexandria. Hence why the Library of Alexandria burned down and Eridel was buried beneath the sand.

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