The Library of Alexandria

[Occiput in Starlight]

What was lost during the Great Library's decline and fall?

How might what was lost have altered our understanding of history?

Please, speculate.

[Dragoon]

100,000s of thousands of books pre Christian era.

Burned or destroyed 3 times, by Romans, Christians, and Arabs.

A small amount of antient texts may have survived.



Roughly what some freemason wrote in a book.

[Occiput in Starlight]

100,000s of thousands of books pre Christian era.

Burned or destroyed 3 times, by Romans, Christians, and Arabs.

A small amount of antient texts may have survived.



Roughly what some freemason wrote in a book.

What about the historical insights that were lost?

How profound might those losses be?