alexandria library egypt?

Answer 1

It was the greatest library of the ancient world, and it's partly because of this library that many ancient texts have come down to us. Alexandria, Egypt, was founded by Alexander the Great, and its famous library shortly afterward. Alexander ordered that the greatest texts in the world should be collected at the Alexandrine Library.

For several hundred years, many of the world's leading scholars were affiliated with the library. These included Archimedes, the geographer Ptolemy, mathematicians Proclus, Apollonius, and Hypatia; and the guy (I forgot his name) who figured out the earth's circumference based on the sun's shadow at Syene.

The library was destroyed, in part or totally, more than once. There was a fire during the Cleopatra/Antony/Caesar/Octavian era; a Roman emperor during the Christian era (after Constantine) destroyed some books considered heretical (although some, such as the Gospel of Thomas, were hidden in the desert to save them); and in the Muslim era (ca. 700 CE) whatever was left was totally destroyed.

Certainly much that was there is lost forever because of book-burning episodes. But other material, such as what we know of Aristotle, was spirited out of there and preserved in the Muslim world (especially Constantinople) for a millennium, only to reappear in the West where it helped initiate the Renaissance.

So the Library at Alexandria was an important part of history.

Answer 2

A famous library burned down during the reign of ptolemaian Queen Cleopatra. Newly rebuilt.
Located in Alexandria

Answer 3

The Library of Alexandria was one of the treasures of the ancient world. Scholars came from all around the known world to study there. It's been speculated that the world lost an unimaginable amount of knowledge when it burned. We're only now rediscovering what they knew. It was burned in stages, sometimes accidentally and sometimes as a result of wars.

Answer 4

built in Hellenistic times, greatest library in antique`s, burned when Caesar came to Egypt and finnaly destroyed in 4th century ad by christians. Alexander the Great was burried in the library

Answer 5

Yes, there was once a great Roman era library in the city of Alexandria, which was destroyed by fire in antiquity.

Answer 6

Julius Caesar either accidentally or on purpose set it ablaze by ship. It contained all written knowledge of the time. Twas also a school for the learned. I think Caesar would have done it around the 40s bce? Don't quote me. No clue about napoleons interest.

Answer 7

if memory serves wasn't this one of the "pagan" libraries burned down by christian "zealots"? "pagan library" defined as one housing works honoring customs, practices and deities, etc. not sanctioned by that "tolerant" religion. a great loss i suspect for later generations.

Answer 8

All of the books in that library could fit a modren CD-ROM

Answer 9

What about it? If you had typed these exact same words into the search field at google.com you would have gotten tons of sites discussing it.

Answer 10

This is waht happens when people stop using clay tablets. Do clay tablets burn? I told them, use clay already...but the schmucks wouldn't listen.