Who Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?
January 9, 2025
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The tragedy of the Library of Alexandria: ancient knowledge destroyed in fire.
The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important collections of knowledge in the ancient world. A cultural and intellectual centre, it was rumoured to contain half a million scrolls, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Homer and Herodotus. Some of the most brilliant minds of the period worked, studied and taught there.
However, ancient sources describe a terrible fire, that destroyed the library and lost all of this knowledge forever...
So what happened?
In this video, I go through what we know about the Library, theories on how and by whom it was destroyed, and then discuss any possible lessons that we can learn in the modern day.
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