The Library of Alexandria Wasn’t Burned Once — It Was Killed Slowly
Imagine it: Alexandria harbor, 48 BC, Julius Caesar surrounded by enemy ships, torches thrown, fire leaping across the water — and somewhere in the smoke, the greatest library the ancient world had ever built collapsing into cinders in a single catastrophic night. It is one of history’s...
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