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; Seydlitz
Fascinating history of the library. Notes that the library was *not* burned by Julius Caesar, and in fact was around throughout Roman times, and was finally consigned to the flames by the Moslems -- as recorded by a Moslem historian:
19 posted on
08/24/2004 5:58:01 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Seydlitz
library at Alexandria The new library at Alexandria hasn't been burned, yet.
24 posted on
08/24/2004 9:07:24 AM PDT by
RightWhale
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