An ancient university of Alexandria?

Jim West notes on his Weblog that archaeologists have un-earthed the remains of the ancient university of Alexandria. He refers to an article in The Intelligencer; the same news is also presented in The Seattle Times. The story seems to come from The Associated Press.
I may have slept in the class, but I don't know much about the ancient University of Alexandria. The ancient Museum is 'well-known' from literary sources, but if these news are correct, they might well represent a tremendous new discovery about ancient Alexandria:"A Polish-Egyptian team has unearthed the site of the fabled University of Alexandria, home of Archimedes, Euclid and a host of other scholars from the era 2,300 years ago when the coastal Egyptian city dominated the Mediterranean.

The team has found 13 individual lecture halls, or auditoria, that could have accommodated as many as 5,000 students, according to archaeologist Zahi Hawass, president of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The classrooms are on the eastern edge of a large public square in the Late Antique section of modern Alexandria and are adjacent to a previously discovered theater that is now believed to be part of the university complex, Hawass said.
The most conspicuous feature of the rooms, he said, is an elevated seat placed in the middle of the "U," most likely designed for the lecturer.

The discovery is "incredibly impressive," said Willeke Wendrich, an archaeologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "We knew it existed and was an extremely famous center for learning, but we knew it only from textual accounts. ... We never knew the site."" (copied from The Seattle Times).
If anyone out there has some further information on this, please use the comments feature below, or email me.

.......update:
I had a vague memory of having read about this before, and now I see that it was on Jim Davila's PaleoJudaica May 9th. He also includes a comment from Ellen Birnbaum:Thanks for posting the item about the "University of Alexandria." How odd that the excavators would call it this--I've never heard of such a University. They must mean either the gymnasium or the Museum. I'll be interested in how they identify this newly discovered site with one that's mentioned explicitly in the ancient sources!"
Hence my question still is: Does anybody have some further information concerning this discovery? Do you have further information now, Ellen B?