[blam]

"I can't even contemplate the loss of the library at Alexandria."(link does not work)

I agree!! Of course my first thought is what it would have told us about Atlantis.

[LostTribe]

Rats, I tried this erratic link twice to make sure it worked. Here is what is looks like at the NGS. And the title there is Modern Egypt Revives Ancient "Great Library". Worth a quick read.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0806_wirelibrary.html

[RightWhale]

what it would have told us about Atlantis

Likely nothing. The main enterprise at the library was copying scrolls. Whatver they had would have eventually been loaned out in copy and would possibly be found elsewhere such as at Naples, and most of what they had postdated Alexander.