To: laishly
True. And it was Genghis Khan, the Chinese King, who burned the library at Alexandria, Egypt, detroying all those ancient documents.
11 posted on
08/23/2004 9:36:48 AM PDT by
combat_boots
(Dug in and not budging an inch)
To: combat_boots
Actually, the library at Alexandria had been burned nearly 1400 years before, during a battle between the Egyptians and Julius Caesar's Roman legions.
16 posted on
08/23/2004 11:31:35 PM PDT by
Seydlitz
To: combat_boots
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.
23 posted on
08/24/2004 7:59:13 AM PDT by
paleocon patriarch
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