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Feb 1, 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. What exactly happened to this amazing storehouse of ancient knowledge, and who was responsible for its burning?
- Brian Haughton
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Its membership appears to have ceased by the 260s AD. Between 270 and 275 AD, Alexandria saw a Palmyrene invasion and an imperial counterattack that probably destroyed whatever remained of the Library, if it still existed. The daughter library in the Serapeum may have survived after the main Library's destruction.
On a sunny morning in 642 C.E., armies of Muslim Arabs, in the process of conquering Egypt, destroyed the ancient library at Alexandria, which for a thousand years had been the western world’s most important center of learning. 1.
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.
Jun 25, 2024 · Scholars further believe that there is enough evidence to show that the destruction of the two libraries occurred at different times. The Royal Library was an unfortunate casualty of war. In 48 bce Julius Caesar became involved in a civil war in Egypt between Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII.
- Mostafa El-Abbadi
Nov 17, 2020 · November 17, 2020 4:30 PM EST. T he opening episode of Carl Sagan ’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed...
Jun 2, 2019 · The destruction of the great library of Alexandria has been lamented as one of the biggest losses of the ancient world. Nearly one million documents from across Assyria, Greece, Persia, Egypt, India and many other powerful civilizations at the time graced its shelves.
