Hypatia was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 370. She was the daughter of Theon, a renowned philosopher and mathematician of the time who worked in the museum founded by Ptolemy. It was not the most common, but Theon he wanted his daughter to follow in his footsteps. His training developed, mainly, from the Alexandria Museum itself and he became an authority in the fields of (Platonic) philosophy and mathematics. In 400 her knowledge was such that she was appointed director of the Museum, to which the Library belonged at that time, the place that has stored the most human knowledge in all of our history.
During the time of Hypatia , Alexandria was going through an extremely conflictive moment, the Christians became strong and began to corner the pagans. Poor Hypatia (which was pagan) was involved in a struggle of economic and religious interests between the Emperor and the Patriarch of Alexandria. She was accused of being the instigator of these conflicts.
One day, in the middle of the street, a group of fanatics (Christians) beat her and dragged her down the street to the Alexandria Cathedral. There, after undressing her, they beat her with tiles until she was dismembered (other sources say that her skin was stripped with seashells), and her remains were paraded in triumph through the city and then burned.
