Just think of everything that was lost when the Alexandria Library was destroyed at the orders of a religious fanatic Caesar!
Seals in ancient Doliche found in limestone blocks foundation
The gods portrayed on the seals offer insight into people’s religious world. Mythical figures or unique personal portraits indicate a strong Greco-Roman influence.
The well-preserved seal impressions and their motifs also provide valuable information about the administrative practices of ancient times, as reported by Heritage Daily.
The seals were discovered in the sturdy lower foundations of an archive building constructed from solid limestone blocks. The building has been confirmed to be eight meters wide and twenty-five meters long.
The width of the walls indicates the building was multi-story. An international research team revealed sections of the building over an eight-week period last summer, as reported by the University of Münster. Although each Roman city had specific archives for storing contracts, only a handful of archive structures from the Roman Empire have been recognized so far.
As researchers have explained, actual archive documents were lost in a significant fire, likely around AD 253, when the Persian king, Šāpūr I, laid waste to numerous cities in the Roman province of Syria.
Experts plan to investigate the evolution of the area around 300 BC. They aim to explore the city, established in the first century BC, which later became a regional center during Roman rule.
The focus of the study is on understanding the daily lives of the people who inhabited the city amid shifting political and cultural circumstances, according to the University of Münster.
The library of Alexandria was not destroyed by Julius Caesar, it was destroyed in the 7th century by order of the muslim caliph.