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Library of Alexandria
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The Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the world. It is generally thought to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC, during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt. It was likely created after his father had built what would become the first part of the library complex, the temple of the Muses � the Musaion (from which is derived the modern English word museum).

It has been reasonably established that the library, or parts of the collection, were destroyed by fire on a number of occasions ( library fires were common enough and replacement of handwritten manuscripts was very difficult, expensive and time-consuming ). To this day the details of the destruction (or destructions) remain a lively source of controversy..

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was inaugurated in 2003 near the site of the old library. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

[Ya-ta Boy]

Why don't you save us the suspense and tell us if it was the Martians or the Venusians and the role the Masons played in it?

[gang ah jee]

[flotsam]

Gnostics.

[ThePoet]

it was the mole people...I swear!


Poet

[Hollywoodaction]

I swear, when I saw the topic, I thought, "The OP must be Igotthisguitar."

[RACETRAITOR]

It was the Americans.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

It was never destroyed; people just kept checking out books and never returning them.

[manlyboy]

Barnes & Noble drove them out of business.


Of the 4 possibilities given:

1. Caesar's conquest 48 BC;
2. the attack of Aurelian in the 3rd century;
3. the decree of Theophilus in 391;
4. the Muslim conquest in 642 or thereafter

1. Caesar was quite the reader/writer, so I don't think he would have stood for the library's destruction.
2. Aurelian was noted for incorporating rebelious foreigners into the empire, so he wouldn't have needlessly pissed them off.
4. The Muzzies were approaching their golden age of learning around that time.

So by the process of elimination, I vote number 3. I think they were burning more books than they were writing at around that time in the West. Reading was becoming quite passe.

[flotsam]

Maybe the skinheads...

[fadedgirl]

Maybe it was the earthquake in the 1300s that also toppled the pharos (lighthouse) in Alexandria.

The library now is really cool...

[ED209]

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[Delirium's Brother]

It was the smiling guy with the yellow head-wrap standing behind Kurt Russell. I heard him say, "I will destroy this great library, and make Junior/igotthisguitar my puppet! Then he will lead the masses astray in my name! I am the puppet-master. This is the greatest burn in the world! I am the king! I rule! I pwned your asses!" He said something like that.

[gypsyfish]

George W Bush

[djsmnc]

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