Alexandri The Destruction Of The Library Alexandria

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Interestingly, when I Googled the “Library Alexandria”, over 44 million results appeared. Most of us have heard of this library, and most of the first ten search pages all refer to the destruction of the library. Hollywood and many internet pages all refer to the library as having “burned down”. This is true to some extent, but honestly it is far from the whole story. At the time in history, the Alexandria library was the center and most famous library in classical antiquity. The library dates from around 295 BCE, until approximately 640 CE. During its heydey, scholars and intellectuals from all over the world studied and worked there. Scholars such as Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Manetho, and Zenodotus were but some of the library's

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