What Was Lost When The Library of Alexandria Burned?
What was lost when the Library of Alexandria burned? Well — our entire knowledge of the Greco-Roman world comes from about 500 volumes. 700,000 scrolls were potentially lost at Alexandria alone. Alexandria was once antiquity’s greatest city — a trade port connecting Africa, Europe and Asia. When Ptolemy I took control of Egypt in 305 […]
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