Genghis Khan's Pen As Mighty As His Sword

Beijing - A Chinese historian says he has evidence that ruthless conqueror and master of the Mongol horde Genghis Khan was as masterful with the pen as he was with the sword.

Historians have long assumed the ancient Mongolian ruler was illiterate, primarily because the Mongolian written language was created in the early 13th century, when Genghis Khan would have been in his 40s and not have had time to learn, the official Xinhua news agency said.

However, Tengus Bayaryn, a professor at China's Inner Mongolia University, announced he had found an "autographic edict" written by Genghis Khan in 1219 inside a book sent to a Chinese Taoist priest, it said.

"The original message, in Mongolian, was written in a unique style and tone and could only have been been drafted by the great ruler himself," Bayaryn was quoted as saying.

A later note penned to the same Taoist scholar read: "I've ordered the ministers to compile a handbook of your lesson and will read it personally," Xinhua said.

"That 'I will read it personally' suggests clearly Genghis Khan could read the Mongolian version of the sermon," Bararyn said.

Genghis Khan, born around 1167, unified disparate Mongolian tribes to create a lethal, horseback fighting force that rode roughshod over China and Central Asia and forged a short-lived empire that reached as far west as Poland and Hungary

Actually, the library was burned during the fighting between the Eqyptians and Romans. perhaps some remnant survived that was burned in later times. In late 48 B.C., Caesar commanded an expeditionary force to settle the civil war between Cleopatra and her brother, Ptolemy. A large fleet of war galleys was in the harbor at Alexandria, and Caesar ordered the ships burned, lest they fall into the hands of the Ptolemy's Egyptians. As the great American military biographer, Col. Theodore Ayraut Dodge noted, "It was in the conflaguration thus begun that Alexandrian library perished, togerther with many other public buildings and treasures." (Dodge, "Julius Caesar", pg. 582)

According to the link you provide, Canfora's rather lowly-rated book is merely expressing an opinion on when the library was destroyed - one that flies in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Again, perhaps some small remnant of the library survived, only to be destroyed at a later date.

Actually, no it wasn't. The library was not burned by Caesar or in Caesar's time. In Caesar's own account, the fire set among the Egyptian ships spread to the dock area, and burned "some books which chanced to be there". The Great Library was in the citadel, which is where Caesar was at the time of the fire. Since the library is referred to and continued to be used for six more centuries, claiming that Caesar burned it is difficult to reconcile.

So much for your "mountain of evidence".

As Canfora noted, after the Moslem conquest, the caliph was consulted. He sent back word that anything in the library that conflicts with the Koran should be burned, and that anything that agreed with the Koran wasn't needed either, because they had the Koran. The burning of the library's 400,000+ books (which by that time had been copied onto parchment, rather than the original papyrus, and as Canfora said, was "crawling with errors") took place in the heating systems for public baths, and took six months.

And it was Genghis Khan, the Chinese King, who burned the library at Alexandria, Egypt, detroying all those ancient documents.

Wrong.
The suspects for the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria are Caesar, Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria and Caliph Omar of Damascus - A Roman, a Christian, and a Moslem.

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