Who Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?

Really high quality thought it was a big channel, keep up the good work. Although maybe give it a little more soul in the conclusion of “what we learned from Alexanderia” I.e it felt AI generated. Great video (:

Thank you, Michael.

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Too bad they didn't collect a book about fire safetyl. hehe

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its under the Vatican

I have been binge watching all of the videos in this channel and I find it ironic that this video does exactly the same thing the creator criticizes, which is the underestimation of past civilizations. The so called library of Alexandria was part of a museum and there was a second one in the Serapeum. The one in the museum was a venue for great thinkers to share their knowledge and to preserve it, needless to say they weren’t dumb and took their ideas to other libraries and centers of knowledge alike too all throughout the Hellenistic world. By 48 BC the library in the museum was already a shadow of its former self and glory. So there are 2 things to be considered: -People from the past didn’t just share knowledge in one place as they had other venues to carry out their intellectual activities and secondly that by 48 bc the library was already a shadow of its former self, meaning there were other great intellectual venues at that time all throughout the Roman and Hellenistic world

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They're in the Vatican no doubt

I really enjoy the film The Name of the Rose. It really brings home the loss of knowledge.

There were other libraries. I get that this is from a euro pov.

There was also the sack of Alexandria by Caracala ca.214 ad could've damaged the library if it still existed then.

"BCE"? Like as in Before C@nts Eviscerated western culture? Or Before Christaphobic Eunics" started to make marginal history videos? Unsubscribed.

The name Ptolemy is pronounced TOL e mee--the "P" is silent in all Greek words that begin with the letters "pt," as well as in derivations of such words, like ptarmigan, ptosis or pterodactyl.

Meanwhile, modern barbarians are destroying today’s centers of learning at places like Harvard, Columbia, and many others.

Whatever your political views, destroying our universities is not a solution to any real problem.

Fine, but please don't forget to mention the great Civilisation of Egypt. The same Hierateion gave all knowledge
to Greek Scholars so this Great Institution flourished. Whoever burned it...what can I say... You said that!
The nazis burned books too. What a "hobby".............. A Greek friend, Nikephoros. (all knowledge and WISDOM!)

I heard a cow kicked over a lantern.

Not the "lost knowledge of Alexandria" again.
Let's be clear, this was one of many libraries and the scholars would visit each other to compare knowledge.

It was neither singular or unique.
*sigh.

Was it humanities first attempt to gather all knowledge? Have you verified Chinas, Indian and Persian History?

A lot of ifs, buts, and maybes in this video, and not many answers. Regardless, the fundamental point is that belief and ideology are the enemies of human progress. Whether an ideology be religious or political, or worse still politicized religion, it is destructive of human wellbeing because it can only thrive by keeping the masses in ignorance and darkness. Belief, i.e., the acceptance of something as true in the absence of evidence, is the root of all evil.

Who destroyed the Library of Amexandria?
(The second time- which was completely thorough)
That's easy:
Muslim purging of all knowledge not the Quran.
Greatest crime of the millennium.

Once again a good video but i admonish you for using the phoney B.C.E.🤔instead of the B.C.-common era is sheer rubbish no meaning no certitude.😡😡🤬

Somehow it’s always terrible to burn books until you disagree with them and then it’s justified bc , they are bad, but it’s different when we do it 🙄 Whatever. 😎🦅🇺🇸

One single proof of our share knowledge & cooperation
antikythera mechanism

Number one reason I am against all organized religion but definitely Islam. The destruction of all that knowledge and history in both their own homelands and conquered lands is nothing short of heartbreaking.

Library of Alexandria held knowledge that led to the world we know today

no single evidence that arabs or muslims destroyed the library of alexandaria, i was sure that you will try to link this sad event to arabs ,,,

You skipped over the story of Hypatia, the last head of the Alexandria Library, who was famous throughout the Roman Empire for her lectures in mathematics and philosophy, a beloved figure who was a dedicated teacher and also a member of the city council. She ran afoul of the 'christian' Bishop Cyril of Alexandria and the crazed desert monks who skinned her alive. Her awful death in 415 AD marks the true end of the Roman Empire. She was a Roman citizen and they could not protect her and did not punish those who killed her. Cyril, who had ordered her murder, rose to a high position in the 'church.'

How about some dates to time-frame this fabulous library?

Islam it was islam.

Seems like it's always conservatives ruining things for future generations.

There were other massive repositories of knowledge and writing around the world other than the one at Alexandria but, it is the opinion of most "scholars" that it was the largest one of them all. At least, it was at the center of everything going on in the world during that time period.
The destruction by politics and religions prove very well that those two institution have done more to deter the advancement and more to the detriment of the human species that all wars and catastrophes combined. Humans are genetically disposed to destroy themselves. Every time they reach a new pinnacle of achievements they find some way to knock it all down again and again. They are working hard to do that again as I type these words. So far, however, they have managed to build up again and advance further each time. At least, that has been the case since the Younger Dryas era. Anything previous to that is wide open to theory, speculation and fantasy.
The short version is that ALL cults, I mean, "religions", are absolute horse hockey and absolute Bravo Sierra! When coupled with politics they are the worst thing ever invented by the species and until they grow beyond those idiocies they will keep failing to evolve to a level of true sentience.

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i think medieval maps with Antarctica came directly from this library (as replicas)

The destruction of the Library of Alexandria...talk about one of humanity's great technological tragedies. We should really take a lesson, considering so much of our knowledge exists exclusively in digital formats.

Here is what is wrong with our current efforts to preserve the knowledge of the world. If an emp event hit the earth 90% of the accumulated knowledge would be lost because it is almost all stored on magnetic media. And when our civilization collapsed from the emp event the rest of our knowledge would most likely be wiped out with conflict and strife. Books would become a luxury. Also paper won't last long most people do not know how paper is made. and the only things left would be baked clay tablets like in Sumer.