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. Alexandria was founded in …

Library fires have happened sporadically through the centuries: notable examples are the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the destruction of Library of Nalanda in India and the accidental burning of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany.

Suddenly, early in the 13th century appears an account reported by Ibn al-Qifṭī and other Arab authors describing how ʿAmr had burned the books of the ancient Library of Alexandria. The story has a fictitious flavour and has repeatedly been criticized, notably by 18th-century British historian Edward Gibbon , and it has since been proved to ...

2024年9月13日 · According to Plutarch, a Greek historian from the first century CE: Caesar was forced to repel the danger by using fire, which spread from the dockyards and destroyed the Great Library. Thus, it appears straight-forward enough that Julius Caesar burned down the Library of Alexandria. This occurred in 48 BCE.

The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter.

2019年6月2日 · 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.

2011年2月1日 · Once the largest library in the ancient world, and containing works by the greatest thinkers and writers of antiquity, including Homer, Plato, Socrates and many more, the Library of Alexandria, northern Egypt, is popularly believed to have been destroyed in a huge fire around 2000 years ago and its volumous works lost.

2024年8月28日 · Was Julius Caesar really responsible for the burning of the Library of Alexandria? Was it destroyed by Christian forces who wanted to erase any remnants of Paganism? Or did the library simply suffer a steady decline as other ancient cities rose to prominence? Here’s what history says. The Library Of Alexandria’s Enigmatic Beginnings

2019年8月3日 · It’s believed to have been completely destroyed in a devastating fire about 2000 years ago and its thousands of priceless works burnt to ashes. Its loss has haunted historians and scholars for centuries. But exactly How, When and Who is …

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 library held a million volumes, including an extensive collection of Greek and Roman literature, as […]