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The Library of Alexandria
The first known library to attempt to collect every book in existence and so store all the
World's knowledge.
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
1. Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
1. Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC2. By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
1. Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC2. By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD3. A Coptic Christian mob by decree of a Coptic
Pope AD 391 to destroy all “pagan” material
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
1. Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC2. By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD3. A Coptic Christian mob by decree of a Coptic
Pope AD 391 to destroy all “pagan” material4. Muslim Conquest >642 AD
