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The loss of the ancient world's single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of Alexandria, has been lamented for ages. But how and why it was lost is still a mystery. The mystery exists not for lack of suspects but from an excess of them. Alexandria was founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great.
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Ancient writers said the fire spread and destroyed part of the Library's collections; [8] the Library seems to have partially survived or been quickly rebuilt. [ 8 ] In 48 BC, during Caesar's Civil War , Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria .
1 lut 2011 · The infamous destruction by fire of the Library of Alexandria, with the consequent loss of the most complete collection of ancient literature ever assembled, has been a point of heated debate for centuries.
17 lis 2020 · One of our sources about the Alexandrian Library is the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, who, in his History (written around AD 380-390) also brings together the two key facts: that...
By the time the Library itself — or at least part of it — was burned down by Julius Caesar in 48 B.C., it had been falling into disuse for quite some time. “It is sometimes said that the destruction of the Library of Alexandria set civilization back by centuries,” Ryan tells us.
4 dni temu · Library of Alexandria - Ancient, Burning, Destruction: The fate of that great wealth of books remains provocative and controversial. For centuries the main point of contention was whether or not the library (or libraries—as two sites existed) survived until the Arab conquest of Alexandria in the 7th century.
28 sie 2024 · The Library of Alexandria in Egypt held all the knowledge of the ancient world and at its height, it may have contained over 400,000 texts. Legend says Julius Caesar burned the Library of Alexandria, but scholars don't think that's what actually happened.
