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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

city

Alexandria

The largest city of the Roman East and the hinge of the empire's food supply: Egyptian grain shipped from Alexandria fed Rome and later Constantinople.

31.2, 29.9 · approximate · founded 331 BCE by Alexander III; Roman provincial capital of Aegyptus from 30 BCE; grain supply redirected to Constantinople from the 4th century CE

On the world

A place in: Roman Empire · 7 places
Joined to: Alexandria — The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum) · 2 places

Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded.

Connections · 3 of 4

connects via The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum) — Alexandria was the export terminal for Egyptian grain, the single largest bulk flow in the empire, moved entirely by ship.
is connected to of The Egyptian cable land crossing — Cables crossing Egypt re-enter the Mediterranean at landing stations at Alexandria and at Abu Talat to its west.
early centre of Christianity — A port that hinged Mediterranean shipping to the Red Sea also hosted an early Christian community with schools, texts and controversies — commercial centrality producing intellectual centrality.

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865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on Earth

242

area: — A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.
point: — A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
soft: — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.
waypoint: — A stop on a route. A single point does not describe it.

Outside the current lens or window · 205

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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Alexandria

On the world

Connections · 3 of 4

The places on Earth

In focus · 37

Outside the current lens or window · 205