Yes, I knew that… Didn’t mean to imply that the Romans burned it. Just stating how much information was lost… God only knows what vanished.
Not what I meant, but I appreciate your patience. The entire library contents were on papyrus, which started to get in bad shape, so the whole works was hand-copied onto parchment (animal skin) and the originals were disposed of. Given what has been dug up at Oxyrhynchus, I wonder if the fragments of the entire original library aren’t waiting in some forgotten public dump.