[DoughtyOne]

I agree.

I’m am quite saddened by the destruction of the Library at Alexandria.

Erasing all that knowledge from the past, it’s an amazing act of ignorance.

[Jamestown1630]

Erasing all that knowledge from the past, it’s an amazing act of ignorance.

I don't think it's clear how much was actually destroyed - maybe a lot of things made their way to safety:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

(You don't have to burn a library to destroy knowledge; you can do it by edict. They don't seem to teach American History in public schools, anymore.)

[a fool in paradise]

>>I’m am quite saddened by the destruction of the Library at Alexandria. Erasing all that knowledge from the past, it’s an amazing act of ignorance.

It was an affront to Islam. Everything they needed was in the Koran.

[frank ballenger]

I’m am quite saddened by the destruction of the Library at Alexandria.

Always terribly upsetting to me when ignorant fools in power destroy the hard won knowledge of their betters of the past.

Happening again when Muslims take dynamite and air hammers to ancient sculpture as well as destroying books. In Biblical Archeology Review (I subscribe) it said an innocent white-haired curator was tortured to make him tell under duress the hidden locations of precious artifacts and chiseled words on tablets so the Muslims could raid the hiding places. Which they soon did. Disgusting.

A Season 12 episode of Ancient Aliens showed two possibilities of the Catholic Church with some irreplaceable artifacts and information: some said they destroyed the relics and writings to win against non-Catholic cultures, the others said Catholics "hide" rather than destroy (as in the top secret Vatican Library vaults.) Behind their forty foot walled Vatican----a model for Texas and Arizona to use for wall building, by the way.

[fella]

"I’m am quite saddened by the destruction of the Library at Alexandria.

Erasing all that knowledge from the past, it’s an amazing act of ignorance."

Didn't the final total destruction take place in the 7th century by the ROP?

[PIF]

What Antony’s accidental firing of the Library did not destroy, the remainder were worked over by the early Christians, until relieved from that unhappy work by the muslims who preserved a few texts here and there as it suited their whims and helped build the false narrative that muslims made great contributions to the world - besides slaughtering 285 million people.