The first known library to attempt to collect every book in existence and so store all the Worlds knowledge Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions ID: 199890
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The Library of Alexandria
The first known library to attempt to collect
every
book in
existence and so store
all the World's knowledge.Slide2Slide3
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions: Slide4
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BCSlide5
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC
By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 ADSlide6
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC
By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD
A Coptic Christian mob by decree of a Coptic Pope AD 391 to destroy all “pagan” materialSlide7
Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:
Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC
By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD
A Coptic Christian mob by decree of a Coptic Pope AD 391 to destroy all “pagan” material
Muslim Conquest >642 ADSlide8