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Serapeum of Alexandria
The Serapeum of Alexandria was the great temple of the god Serapis, founded under Ptolemy III in the third century BCE and rebuilt in Roman times. It also housed a daughter library of the Library of Alexandria. In 391, after imperial orders against pagan cults, Christians led by Patriarch Theophilus destroyed it, an event seen as marking the end of public paganism in the city.
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