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To: normbal

Caesar Antony is given first credit, while the muslims got the rebuilt collections later


41 posted on 11/14/2021 3:42:15 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

If the ‘slims took credit, I’d believe them.

https://www.dailyhistory.org/How_was_the_Library_of_Alexandria_Destroyed


58 posted on 11/14/2021 6:33:32 PM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: PIF

The Great Library wasn’t burned by Julius Caesar. Had it been, it wouldn’t have been around to be replaced (crumbling papyrus with parchment) during the Roman era, and then burned by order of the caliph after the muzzie conquest of Egypt.


62 posted on 11/14/2021 9:02:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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