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To: Jamestown1630
Ran into this on the internet when I Googled the burning of the library in around 50 BC.

The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC and the...

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Seems your thoughts on it may be right on target. I was unaware of this angle on it. Thanks for mentioning it.

28 posted on 12/27/2019 7:01:55 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: DoughtyOne

I don’t know how everything happened. But I know that men concerned with Knowledge and aware of the import of findings and discoveries, find ways to preserve and protect those.

(And I don’t think we need ‘Outer Space Visitor’ stories, to explain human accomplishment on Earth.)


38 posted on 12/27/2019 7:17:52 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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