The Library of Alexandria - The Crime That Set Human Civilization Back 1,000 Years

The burning of the Library of Alexandria in Ancient Egypt ranks among the worst crimes committed against humanity in known history. Lost scientific research including physics and anatomy and medicine, as well as knowledge and documentation of culture and history is widely believed to have set human civilization back significantly. Carl Sagan himself stated that the burning of the library of Alexandria likely set humanity back 1,000 years.

[@issamissa902]

* having a good time in life * * remembers the burning of alexandria library * * get angry af *

[@attspace]

issa m æ ł ï şş ā it can ruin any day..

[@028TuvaluanHero]

The world could've been different.

[@marshallfischer3667]

Makes me angry to this day!

[@Sick_Boy.]

* Then remembers the Vatican Library has it’s secrets ,continues to get angry AF*

[@Em_Rey]

Lmao so true

[@rjweiss1]

That would be like someone destroying the internet today

[@log293]

@WWG1WGA! USA Heard of Wikipedia?

[@log293]

@WWG1WGA! USA k

[@darthjegg6570]

@WWG1WGA! USA >go to a library instead of google for information in 2019 lmao

[@rjweiss1]

WWG1WGA! USA the internet contains basically the entirety of information of mankind. If you get lost in bullshit and chick bait then you’re in the wrong place. You can learn and teach yourself almost anything if you know how to find the information. Don’t be a hater

[@josejayant3127]

WWG1WGA! USA go to library for free tutorial videos if you can find any.

[@joeschmo8755]

In school we had to make a project on a historical disaster and I chose the burning of the library of Alexandria. People were so interested, we talked about it for an entire week cause nobody was taught it in class.

[@northernhemisphere4906]

nice mate.what a nice school too it seems.certainly time joyfully spent.

[@abhishekrao1710]

Library of Nalanda in India(Bharat) had 9 million manuscripts. It burned for 3 months. Now with your knowledge comprehend how many years back was humanity set back. It was burned by an Islamic invader named Bakhtiyar Khilji because the natives of land healed his wounds. Enraged by the knowledge we possessed he sent his army 1000 miles east just to burn the library.

[@deansmith4752]

@@abhishekrao1710 there are crimes against humanity which know no bounds. This is not just a holocaust of people but the destruction of the potential that generations that were lost.

[@cagnazzo82]

@@abhishekrao1710 Now that was a truly evil man.

[@kwisatzhaderach472]

@@abhishekrao1710 I'm sure that wasn't the reason. Why would the reasoning of the people involved be so childish? You really believe Caesar burned the library without first cleaning it out? Tell me would you do that if you were in his place and then tell me do you think Caesar was stupid? The people you conqueror, you take their knowledge away. Make it seem lost, and then you use it to stay in power. None of these historical characters were stupid and these transmissions make them seem so very one-dimensional.

[@SuccuBustazz]

Well this just teaches you how important it is to make backups

[@Greyfoxdbz18]

I feel like the saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket" came from this library being burned down. They should have uploaded to the cloud.

[@turnbrain3049]

Greyfoxdbz18 LOL

[@powerplayer75]

Greyfoxdbz18 they probably would have burned down the cloud. in case you dont know thats actually possible.

[@wiirules13]

Even the cloud can get corrupted

[@ThreeWickedWonders]

error 404: Ra not found

[@Pupcaller8]

Greyfoxdbz18 yeah man what the fuck why didn't they backup their data?

[@throttle1000]

It's clear from the comment section humanity was indeed set back a thousand years.

[@tinotendadavidzinyama588]

lmao, take this W

[@enescakr4203]

Alucard yeah your comment on a fucking video takes us further right?!

[@jcoope77]

Mari Kurihara liberalism is a disease

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Alucard nah by six thousand. Look at many youtube comments

[@engincallahan2943]

Alucard and another 1000years in the last decade, thx to TV that is full of useful information..

[@samirmuhammad1781]

This was probably one of the greatest catastrophies of history. Imagine the amount of things we would have access today from the ancient world of that hadn't happened.

[@rickb06]

@mario kong you do realize that the crusades were in direct response to Muslim invaders who murdered, raped and conquered much of modern Europe? The crusades were a defensive act, nothing more. Your historical knowledge is worthless. Biased and incomplete, suited to and by your political beliefs.

[@aprilmariemashburn1]

Probably nothing more than we already know bc they wouldn't have told us anything anyway.

[@chopsyoutube]

@@aprilmariemashburn1 how do you know that?

[@milky8471]

​@@aprilmariemashburn1 How do you know that ?

[@Kopie0830]

Library was burnt multiple times. First by Julius Caesar, next by the jews, lastly by Caliph Umar. I think it's still a blessing in disguise. Imagine ww1 and 2 in 300 ad, ww2 in 350 ad and ww3 in 400 ad. The more knowledge man has, be more warfare becomes more advanced. Warfare is part of human society.

[@matthewmoskowitz468]

“First casualty of war is truth” ~ look it up

[@obi-wankenobimasterjediand5091]

I saw that quote watching the clone wars

[@theexpoexplorer8033]

No wonder Julius got stabbed. Hell I would too

[@Loonaurtheworld]

If you already have a time machine hmu so we can stab him 28 times or more before he burn down the library

[@babyottootto1394]

Hunter West you would prob due too tho so do what you want

[@babyottootto1394]

My knowledge from spaceship earth in Disney world I have learned that they had backups in the middle east

[@bar5167]

Never forget im the fastest man alive

[@connorross4571]

On that we agree.

[@marcguimaraes]

In that library They had all the old knowledge of the old civilizations. Lost forever.

[@tgreaux5027]

Citation needed*

[@lamborgini86]

Are you fucking kidding me . . They probably knew how they built the pyramids

[@DeeJaysterity]

@@lamborgini86 holy shit youre right

[@hornybastard3034]

@@GnosticTheist they documented alot of things back then

[@namedyukinne4398]

Julius Caesar: your welcome

[@zigzag1able]

I like stuff like this, just imagine the endless discoveries, inventions, and technicalities of life we would be able to overcome if The Library Of Alexandria still stood today.

[@lettuceman9439]

Lol no The library was more or less obselete by the time ceasar ever set foot on alexandria, The library was nothing more than just a propaganda machine by the time of cleopatra exalting the Greek Kings of Egypts and turning away the scholars who made the library important in any academic sense immigrating to rome and further down to ethiopia.

[@qjtvaddict]

We would be arguing with aliens

[@vaggs75]

I remember studying math, and reading that Eratosthenes had measured the circumference of the Earth on a random page. Note how they didn't have rulers or pencils back then. I have no idea how he did it. It should have been the main course of geometry, instead of a side note on the book. Geometry means, measuring land. Geo comes from Gea which means land, but also Earth. He took the name quite literally and measured how big the earth was. Could you imagine? He discovered that the "known lands" were probably only 1% of all the Earths surface.

[@CatFishKick]

Petition to force the Vatican to open its vaults to the world

[@Passions5555]

That ain't happening 😒

[@metamorph5286]

The world is not too ready yet, unfortunayely. I mean look at the wars around - but imagine having even more powerful weapons. Idk, maybe it's better to make step by step progress now, though I'd be totally for sharing the knowledge that may be hidden.

[@thorsten8790]

@@metamorph5286 War won't Change much. Nukes are already damn powerful the vatican won't give us the knowledge to destroy planetary bodies lol

[@atpacific]

They are hiding many things that they don't want us to know

[@withlove2963]

I think they're fake, and it's just a sex dungeon

[@trollverse171]

Makes me wonder how the world would be if the library was around now

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

Hoverboards, the cure for cancer and colonies on Mars.

[@bioshock5620]

Juan Manuel Penaloza chill lol

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

@@bioshock5620 It's the truth, ain't it?

[@a2k610]

I mean if it set back the human civilization a 1000 years, we’ll never know.

[@weaboo101]

Juan Manuel Penaloza prolly some lost or hidden civilizations yoo

[@goatcheese2174]

I saw a video a while back saying that when Caesar invaded Alexandria, he didn’t bring a lot of ships and saw the Egyptian army was docked in port with many many more ships than he had. So he burned all their ships down and in doing so the fire spread to the library. He didn’t intend to burn it down, and was actually remorseful about it because he was a lover of literature and history. I think that fire burnt something like 40% of the library. I know other people also invaded and torched the library but I can’t remember the details.

[@SuperYtc1]

Only 48 BC kids would understand.

[@tonedumbharry]

Also, the loss of the library wasn't as catastrophic as claimed. The information contained was not as unique as Jimmy makes out. It was not the only library of its kind. It wasn't even the biggest.

[@goatcheese2174]

@@tonedumbharry source?

[@gfk6560]

@@tonedumbharry no source? Typical

[@jdbb3gotskills]

Learning about this as a teenager is didn’t think much of it. But as I’ve gotten older it pains me to know that so much knowledge was burnt away. The withdrawal of knowledge feels deliberate. It feels like some force out there is trying to keep us humans in the dark. And they are holding us back for as long as they can. I don’t know who would want to do this to us.

[@SuperYtc1]

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should assume it's done by a God. Don't jump to this answer every time there is missing information. It was just a part of history, we are not that important. And clearly humanity is making great advancements so your claim is just stupid.

[@pyarkaaloo]

It was deliberate, and devastating.

[@deewesthill1213]

A Roman general and dictator and some vandals, and centuries later, vicious religious fanatics.

[@jonathanbrooks917]

A very dark force!

[@Carlo-qj5jl]

That would be the Demiurge

[@drewchase6577]

One of the worst crimes against humanity.

[@hamburger4626]

Is farting in a elevator

[@alupadynasty2203]

And what about nalanda University , taxila, vikramshila universities destruction? More than 3 lakh books were burnt during this attack

[@bleachesbrother6697]

@@audi7285 ????????????????????????????

[@romanplays1]

@@audi7285 stfu nazi in disguise

[@pandesal6607]

fortnite

[@PKMNRangerDenton]

Library of Alexandria: *exists* Julius Ceasar: I'm about to ruin this man's career

[@airmarshal]

Julius Cesar: you niggas in trouble

[@xanny650]

I'ma fix it for you Library of Alexandria: * exist * Julius Caesar: I'm about to end this mans whole career

[@connorross4571]

100th like!

[@truthoftheuniverse4179]

THAT TO THIS ASSHOLE WE LOSE SO MUCH OF ANCIENT ALIEN TECHNOLOGY

[@cf8415]

Truly, a fellow intellectual.

[@peterpocock9062]

The more we learn from history (on a open honest, unbiased basis) the greater our chance of being truly great in the future!

[@ucid5363]

the people who were involved in running the collection of information for the library are the real heros in this world

[@jordanleighwheatley]

Ancient Egypt is by far one of my biggest obsessions. I would love to be able to reverse the clock and see this library.

[@70jcarbon]

Jordan Leigh Wheatley Bruh just change the time settings on your phone

[@JustReckles5]

And the ancient Americas

[@anon-iraq2655]

Think this dorsnt count as ancient rgypt, rather mediaeval egypt

[@Sera-Marie]

Egypt in general ..... They achieved such amazing things.... Then ... Christianity comes along and some people think they have more rights than others and boom 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@pride7416]

@@Sera-Marie just so you know the egyptian pyramids are older than the civilization itself, so its theorized an advanced civilization built it before them, got wiped out, and thousands of years later was rediscovered by egyptians which is why they use them as tombstones- because they didn't know what the true purpose of the pyramids were for

[@Niom_Music]

Fire, man’s greatest discovery. Also, man’s greatest weapon.

[@jacksonh7009]

@roninn we wouldn't have developed bombs without first discovering fire

[@hamburger4626]

Niom shut the fuck up

[@Danymok]

You know what's more dangerous than fire? Atoms.

[@Danymok]

@@DarthBloth lol thx

[@lamborgini86]

Fire is untouchable tbh , its literally what gives us life (sun) , we also need our moon dont forget.

[@christinaparris3426]

I’ll say I was fortunate enough to have a teacher that was very passionate about history, he took a whole lesson to teach about the library of Alexandria, if there’s one event in history I’d chose to change it would be this.

[@ancientmage2669]

I'm with you😊

[@Zarghaam12]

Many such tragic events have had a similar effect. The destruction of Babylon and its mathematical, astronomical and philosophical works had similar effects. About 2000 years later the Mongol destruction of libraries of Samarqand, Bukhara, Balkh, Nishapur, Isfahan and, above all, Baghdad - the city of many big libraries - also set back humanity.

[@bornvillain6819]

Legend has it the only thing that survived the fire was colonel Sanders secret recipe.

[@agustingarcia9563]

Born Villain don’t forget about the krabby patty formula

[@nosuchthing8]

Born Villain too soon

[@NOfearNOinfinity]

And all the other junk was fed into education curriculum no doubt

[@BASSQUATCH001]

And a Nokia 3310.

[@ghostbl33d65]

I mean it is said the "knowledge of the soul" was contained within that library so its undoubtable.

[@exomilav]

* having a great time * * find this video * * find out the library of alexandria was burned setting civilization back 1,000 years * * realize our 2015 couldve been like back to the future II's 2015 * * get sad *

[@thorsten8790]

Considering all the problems that are currently happening because of technology like being able to perfectly fake facial emotions and voices, high technology weaponry, AI etc. I'm quite glad actually

[@ct7853]

Exomilav I don’t know whether to laugh or...I see ur point though

[@thorsten8790]

You're naive for believing that techonology will not backlash on the human race. I guarantee you the cause for human extinction will involve some scientific innovation.

[@Gorg-oe1hu]

* steals comment *

[@lawliet99968]

@@lordrhino1234 this guy gets it lol, if now the library was not burned, you might not have been born at all.

[@Greendover1]

Hey Jimmy, I’m a “New Fan” Less than a month. I’m from Massachusetts. I ran into you by accident by watching Joe Rogan, and man I gotta say speaking from a “nobody” point of view I gotta say I’m speechless.. I’ve been for the last few years exploring the knowledge “accessible” to me. And through KZbin algorithms finally stumbled upon your presence. I’ve been watching your channel for the last month and can’t come to terms on how this information isn’t easily available. For instance your recent videos on a long forgotten history on pyramids, just makes me wakes me up. Makes me think more clearly on the fact that we might just not be carbon dating as accurate as we believe we are. So again Thank you and keep up the great work. -Leo of Puerto Rico

[@stevewilcox1132]

Your videos are all so interesting. Thanks for the time and effort put into them!

[@johnfranciskennedysongwrit2639]

dont put all your books in one basket.. err sorry , one library

[@johnfranciskennedysongwrit2639]

joshua fallis I' m pretty sure there was a book on that too, for the record it was a tragedy to lose those books

[@199NickYT]

John Francis Kennedy always make backups.

[@bensmith2466]

Something just doesn't smell right about octavian ceaser at the time, a book worm, would let all that knowledge burn. He knew the value and rome prospered during his rule. Because of his vast knowledge of the greeks etc.

[@greatgallade]

John Francis Kennedy they we're essentially a university. so yeah

[@louismalinak5563]

Ben Smith History was written and re-written by the victors

[@damidevil5257]

Whenever anyone asks me what I’d do if I had a time machine I always say it would be to save the library of Alexandria lol

[@obiwankenobi9689]

Just Miles but paradoxes, and timey-wimey problems, and stuff

[@midnightkath]

Small or big changes from the past will always affect the future drastically. People from today will never be born.

[@stronghandstroker9723]

@@midnightkath The second you save the Library wouldn't you also disappear and never be born? And if you were never born how would of save the library in the first place?

[@alexteofilo7761]

@@stronghandstroker9723 I agree, maybe it was a good thing it happened??? Idk

[@tomhohl4373]

Just Miles, Don't bother. Been there. done that. English hadn't been invented yet. Couldn't read a word of it.

[@kevray]

I think the biggest loss with the burning wasn't necessarily unknown books of unimaginable knowledge or whatever. I think there was probably a lot of copies around and what has been lost in science can be found again. Losses in culture though will never be recovered. What romances, musics, poem and so on have been lost? We will never know. A huge part of our shared history and the culture of our ancestors was lost

[@09rja]

Lets think about it this way (from a more recent example): Germany was basically leveled by 1945 (including lots of libraries).....and yet the technology they had survived. In fact, it improved over time. Why? Well, the people did. The notion that some great scientific knowledge was lost with this library presupposes that all scholars were either killed with the library or left everything at the door when they went home.

[@aepfelchen1181]

You can't remember everything tho. Miniscule details they forgot might have been crucial for scholars in later years also.

[@crazgra]

America took the Germans top scientist is how the tech survived. Verner Von Bron? Idk if thats spelled correct.

[@09rja]

@@crazgra That's kind of my point: when Von Braun was grabbed by the Americans....he didn't say "Sorry guys, can't help you. My library in [insert whatever German city you want here] is ashes."

[@jcscss9527]

So did Russian's they took just as many top scientists and others as well. While all victors suppress certain information from us civilians unfortunately

[@kelvinfairwell6134]

The Afrikan priests who were the teachers of the so called Greek philosophers, were murdered along with the burning of the library. The Romans thought that they had all the knowledge, thus throwing Europe into it's DARK Ages!!!

[@caseyjordan5433]

I still get mad when i think about it...

[@TheRainblossoms]

Rome converted to Christianity around 200 years after the library was burnt. So it was the fucking Romans. They fucked up a lot of people's shit back in the day.

[@coreycox2345]

Stupid thing to do. I wonder if there are modern equivalents? Are there digital copies of our cultural artifacts all over the place? What kind of things? Even ordinary things?

[@9manishchahar]

Ryan Jordan In india also Nalanda University was destroyed by Bhaktiyar khilji (Turkish Muslim Invader) in 1193 AD. The library there contained 9 million manuscript and he burned them all.

[@mrlazzo3354]

The burning of the ancient library of Babylon and the Book Burning done by the Anceint Chinese when the Qin conquered China (and built the Great Wall of China) was Equally as bad too

[@baconbitz7804]

Mr Crazy the wall was good we’d be more than a 1000 behind if the Mongolians got into china

[@JSo-ns2xw]

@@baconbitz7804 They did get into China. See the Yuan Dynasty.

[@jijdom]

No it was the mongols, who today call themselves Turks, who did that.

[@jochi7585]

Mr Crazy also, not quite as bad, but the burning of arts by the nazis in the 1940s

[@arminahnoud9068]

And the Mongols

[@ELEMENTALMUZ]

Great video here and humanity should learn much more about the legendary Library of Alexandria! I've only heard about it myself during the past few years and I just turned 48! I don't ever recall anyone teaching about Alexandra in grade school, high school or college!

[@tudorjason]

Among any of the ancient cities, Alexandria has captured my imagination the most. Between the Lighthouse and the Library, between burnings and earthquakes, it's just so fascinating!

[@Jhayzer021]

I'm pretty sure some of the files from the City of Atlantis are stored there.

[@needs716]

Jay-r Castillo *were

[@santicheeks1106]

Jay-r Castillo *were

[@infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295]

I think proof of Atlantis is still stored in the Vatican archives

[@santicheeks1106]

@@infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295 I hope

[@punkhazard1531]

and many uknown great civilizations all over the planet that we 'll sadly never know existed

[@Marta1Buck]

I don't know why almost every conqueror always wipes ancient knowledge. Ancient documents, weaponry, blacksmithing, etc.

[@rubenscott3972]

vawa-ID everyone want to write there history make a god of the selfs

[@RedFormanOG]

Control

[@cassif19]

The romans were actually known for not doing that. That's why I'm sceptical about Julius Caesar being the culpit here

[@edenhazard7597]

Alexander the great was have said to received a vision/dream that told him to destroy it

[@donovanlight6278]

Eden Hazard alexander the great was dead for hundreds of years before the library of Alexandria was destroyed. Hence the city being named after him dipshit

[@KoldAsHell]

Short but very informative. Keep up the good work I'm a long time watcher 💪

[@spacetimecontinuum]

Jimmy we need a longer video for this topic, but I thank you for this one also.

[@latestsports-viralsportscl3971]

The mathematical ability of people thousands of years ago was so advanced that they could build the pyramids, knew the radius of the Earth and even the distance to nearby planets. Just a few hundred years ago people thought the Earth was flat, and some still do. That's how advanced they were. And most people don't even know it.

[@howardbaxter2514]

Ok, I have to correct you on one thing, people have known that the Earth was a sphere for thousands of years. It’s a myth that people back in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat. That being said, you are correct, there are still flat earth idiots.

[@kaizenanalyst4833]

Lol! "Idiots". Ok, ignore the absence of curvature. I suppose you think your great granddaddy was an ape and that his was an amoeba. Whatever! Name-calling can't change reality. To be honest, it won't even matter when Yahweh Sabaoth (Lord of Hosts) remakes heaven and earth. It'll be a new flat earth anyway. So, enjoy your name-calling for this short time you have to do it.

[@DarkenedHalo115]

Kaizen Analyst oof

[@zarni000]

that was way before this. we did not have the ability to build the pyramids during the timeframe of the existence of library of Alexandria.

[@Nothing_serious]

howard baxter Most people do believe that the Earth was flat back then. Yes, there are some that doesn't believe it's flat but most do believe.

[@waqs8708]

Why didnt they just upload the data to a USB

[@Rmora1408]

FBI Nigga you want a scholarship

[@isthisnametaken978]

Nah, they should have uploaded it to cloud backup.

[@ghostlycloudss]

Or at least take some screenshots smh

[@LocalGoatStatus]

For real. Would think these mf's would put that shit on the cloud, or printed copies. Stoopid af

[@jimmyhvy2277]

Yup , ive done the same thing , see smoke . Say , Damn wish i backed that work up :(

[@cambo6911]

Great little expose my friend, I remember when I was going down the rabbit hole about 15 years ago and I learned about the Library of Alexandria. I was captivated in amazement from the get-go. I used to suffer anxiety from the information that was lost their.

[@rbheiss]

I like this upload quite a bit. It is often I wonder what knowledge was lost when that library burned down. This happens to be my Friday as work goes and God knows I know how to party because my idea of a party is gaining knowledge. That being said, it's been fun partying with you and thanks for the upload. Take care, rbheiss

[@amenohaengdongiji7243]

we could have been living with cyborgs.... *ANGRY AF*

[@kyledailey]

*We all would be free willing cyborgs. That's if there really was free will.*

[@toodlesyes9687]

*eldritch screaming*

[@kieferbradley2860]

Probably true

[@Lunk42]

I could have a robo-dick right now smh I'm so upset.

[@reddd-77]

Kyle Dailey determinist?

[@codrindanculea8621]

Egiptians: we will have flying cars in the future Romans: I don't think I will

[@N8IsCool]

Egiptians

[@lewistaylor2858]

they were Greeks, Alexandria was a Greek city

[@SK-hd1yk]

Toxic Killer maybe it was in Egypt but it’s not a myth that Romans as well as other countries invaded, traded with and lived in Egypt and had influence on it.

[@placeholder8768]

Toxic Killer Alexander the Great was Greek. He conquered it and hellenized it- Greece from 300 BC to Cleopatra under the Ptolemaic dynasty had massive traits of Hellenism, unlike the ancient Egypt we all know of. In fact, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Ptolemy, was one of the most influential generals under Alexander the Great, and was from Macedonia.

[@placeholder8768]

Toxic Killer Macedonia (today) is a region in Greece. Google it, it’s near Thrace- the country known as Macedonia today is more Bulgarian and Serbian, which is why they changed their name to ‘North Macedonia’. He admired the Greek culture because he was Greek (although he admired Persian culture a lot too) - and even if he wasn’t Greek in another alternate world, he still hellenized the empire, and his general who became first king of hellenized Egypt was still Greek.

[@peterhernandez3790]

I am just seeing your five year old video, but I am with you, what was lost there is just unimageable.

[@AgustePerry]

I like your videos, very awe inspiring. Going to gobekili teppi in december. Much to explore, im also curious about Lost tombs, alexander and ghenghis khan to be precise.

[@Jasongy827]

Crazy, these Greek philosophers, scientist, and mathematician are like real raw thinkers.

[@ODER66MIKE]

Armani Nguon because they didnt really get distracted by all this bullshit we have today. like im sure kids were alot smarter back in these ancient times than jow since they didnt have phones or video games to distract them

[@sar2794]

Amazing Swami is that why most of the population couldn't read

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

Armani Nguon Too bad the modern Greeks use the same national identity as they did

[@matsbjur2535]

yes, they stood for the first wave of enlightenment. Then Christianity barbarized the continent for 1600 years, slaughtering people until they no longer would have it and we had the second enlightenment.

[@wdtripps6537]

Yes public school limits talk of this library to a brief few sentences. This was the one event that cost humanity an insurmountable amount of knowledge.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

Now they're teaching that it was never burned. See what google puts on page one of an inet search "Alexandria library burned".

[@practicalintuition4030]

Can you do the world a favor and stop talking out loud? thanks.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

@@practicalintuition4030 Snarky. What a great quality in a world of depth and beauty. Do you have any content?

[@brodykuemin9331]

@@practicalintuition4030 bro what ?

[@blacklite911]

@@betsybarnicle8016 I did that and Google said it was burned by Julius Caesar…. There’s debate about how much was lost and how much it set us back though but that’s on qhora.

[@paulreadsthebible6584]

I was taught it was burnt in a slave revolt, not by Ceasar. But what did my old, English teacher in 8th & 9th grades, in 97' - 98' really know? Perhaps he was correct. He was one of the best teachers I've ever had. Thanks, Mr. Gabrio. Peace.

[@scottcaro]

Great video (love all of your stuff) except for one detail. I'm not sure how the library could have existed for 700 years prior to its destruction since it was destroyed in 48 BC and the city of Alexandria was only founded in 331 BC, 283 years prior to the library's destruction. 700 years before Julius Caesar, Egypt was just reemerging from the Bronze Age Collapse and was beginning it's last dynastic period of native rule before Alexander's conquest around 4oo years later. Greece itself was still in its archaic period, basically the Greek Dark Ages, following the collapse of Mycenae and was not yet in it's classical era, with the Persian Wars, Athenian Golden Age, Delian League, etc. Macedonia had only just been founded at that time, was a remote little kingdom in the north, and was of little consequence to Egypt or the Aegean world at that point. I think the library was probably founded at the same time as the city itself, which would mean it was just under 300 years old at the time of the burning. The Library of Ashurbanipal, however, would have existed about 700 years prior to Alexandria, so maybe that's the confusion. Again, great content and I'm not trying to be a know-it-all, but that number "700" just immediately struck me as inaccurate.

[@francisbanecker7579]

Yeah I like the channel but Julius Caesar died in 44 BC and he says a map from 117 AD was only 17 years after Julius Caesar's death. It's sloppy and undermines the point he's trying to make

[@Geekritique]

The Library of Alexandria was to the Greeks, what the Internet is to the world today. Imagine if Google broke tomorrow.

[@pangtsr]

Bruce FUCKIN vane! Egypt was part of Greece at the time. Alexander's empire was at its last day's, as the Roman Empire grew in strength and size. Egypt and Lebanon were not populated by black people at the time.

[@nicksmith6629]

Genius comment... lol

[@unrewritable]

We will move to bing lol

[@test-mm7bv]

well, minus spam and cancer.

[@davidgreen5099]

Geekritique I would argue your assumption, since Alexandria was not used primarily for porn and swearing at each other.

[@gabrieldominguez2647]

1 minute into the video and I'm mad already, so much knowledge lost.

[@abdelrahmanelsaadany1192]

Well you cant imagine how huge the library was its hard to hide even 25% of what was in that library without being seen or discovered unless you bury them tens of meters below the ground

[@Ericwkgnil]

More information has surfaced about ancient documents and it's said to be in the Vatican's vaults deep inside. They always keep the secrets from the public view and fully knowing it can be one day used against them.

[@jimmyparris9892]

Eric Mendoza or burned to the ground.

[@Ericwkgnil]

@@jimmyparris9892 not the smartest thing to do and if you believe main stream than you are being told lies.

[@kevin-hk6yl]

Theyre so much knowledge to gain..

[@charlesadams7636]

Thanks Jimmy. Inspirational work!

[@mrdovie47]

I was taught about the Library of Alexandria, but graduated in 1966.

[@CEOofSleep]

Library of Alexandria: *How to Do Surgery On a Grape* Julius: 🔥 🔥

[@braydonsullivan2092]

Genghis Khunt hahahahahahahaha this is great

[@ryguy4825]

Library of alexandria lost anthem recovered: Hit or Miss I guess they never miss huh?

[@collinsashley1990]

I laughed way too hard

[@TerrorOmnibus]

Well, that explains a lot

[@EllyThePoet]

😂

[@333ryansmith]

i was never taught this in school

[@DrewBarnett144]

Crydal Sorry man. But have you looked at the school system? It's obviously and admittedly not there for you to learn and think critically. You go there to memorize and regurgitate all that they tell you is truth. There is literally no room for question. If you do then you are wrong. This sort of model leads to a society like ours that doesn't question anything and accepts everything without rhyme or reason.

[@poisonsquid37]

You have owners and they also own the schools

[@oscarcastanedamunoz]

Ryan Smith the internet is one big library

[@starwarsroo2448]

ocast evo or liebrary

[@pangtsr]

Ryan Smith well, that's because you don't get to learn much at school. At least not in most countries. In Greek schools we get all that information. But I guess that's probably because it was put there by the Greeks in the first place...

[@Omarmegally]

I love your vids thank you!!

[@timothywheeler2852]

Dig your work and appreciate what you do!!! 💯

[@forty7152]

It was the Fire Nation. They did it. They burned the great Library.

[@attonapz6081]

dammit, azula. if you could only control that temper, youd be so hot! like tai lee

[@gregorybyrne2453]

Check the basement of the vatican or buckingham palace. The Climate Cycles of our water 💦 planet are continental glaciers with lower sea levels brought on by Global tsunami's at the vernal equinoxes.

[@edsfountain]

Lol...Cleopatra witnessed it , and we have proof, you weirdo

[@remix4098]

Lol

[@jochi7585]

Atlantis, pyramids, the minoans.... so much more ancient history, all lost to us

[@bigsmoke2281]

Pyrimids still stand till today

[@peterongan9655]

@@johnperic6860 OP said that the "pyramids....ancient history, all lost to us". He's clearly wrong and wth are you defending him?

[@backinblood3218]

Fureori we do

[@mrk.8448]

Aaron Wells no we do not lol they’re just theories i mean come pyramids are older than jesus

[@codeoptimizationware2803]

@@backinblood3218 : It stands to reason that there was very likely much more information about the pyramids that we will never, ever know because it was destroyed when the Library at Alexandria was sacked more than 2000 years ago. No, we do not know everything there is to know about the still-existing pyramids, nor can we ever know, short of some future discovery unforeseen. Jo Chi's comment is not false. While (at least some of) the pyramids still stand, much ancient history about them is forever lost in antiquity.

[@jesswisdom9094]

I am incredibly grateful for your work. As a parent, I am able to fill in the gaps with my child that public education omits. Thank you!

[@MJ-og8tm]

Amo l'Egitto 🇪🇬 dall'Italia 🇮🇹 siamo uno di fronte all'altro nel Mediterraneo e questa è una cosa meravigliosa🇪🇬🇮🇹❤

[@Fnelrbnef]

I have a sneaky suspicion the same thing is gonna happen to the internet.

[@BrightInsight]

I agree!

[@lesbianduck7862]

I dunno I've seen enough Chris Chan sex tapes and My Little Pony porn to maybe think that wouldn't be such a bad thing

[@sankofax8082]

nah. not when the blockchain technology got things on lock.... I have literally written blogs and posted it on the blockchain. they will last forever.

[@Fnelrbnef]

SANKOFA X Blockchain?

[@sankofax8082]

The blockchain technology By design, is a decentralized technology. ... A global network of computers uses blockchain technology to jointly manage the database that records transactions and information. cryptocurrencies like bitcoin uses it. it can also be used to store a vast array of data.... it is not owned by central system/database or domain, so it cannot be erased all over the vast and spreading network. I have a blog on a block-chain called steemit. my page is steemit.com/@abmakko .Although, I have stopped posting for a while because of some pending issues.

[@Mccmmmccmm]

duuuuude i have literally never heard of the library or alexandria and i just graduated highschool. what they teach is BS

[@guillermovazquez1084]

Cletus Mcgillicudy yeah and they don't talk about how most high ranking Nazis fled to South America an lived the rest of there evil lives doing evil rasict shit

[@sheba389]

Its alright. I never heard of the library of Alexandria in school. I heard it on a show and researched it myself.

[@guts4brekfest]

At least you can find the x on a triangle right? (Sarcasm)

[@sheba389]

Google was (and still is) my best friend lol I learn so much more that way.

[@Mushohsum]

Cletus Mcgillicudy your knowledge shouldn’t depend on what other people feed you. You should venture out yourself to expand your knowledge

[@jonathanhadden7157]

Thinking of how much we’ve advanced in just the last 50 yrs (geometrically), imagine if what we have today was already understood and developed in 1020 CE? Where we’d be now is truly incomprehensible.

[@dinoschachten]

Actually Eratosthenes and his measuring of shadows was part of my history lessons in school. There's still a lot to improve, but German education got that right.

[@DABMANISAWESOME]

Was there a giant owl spirit guarding the library?

[@joelmiller2601]

BamBam21 haha good episode

[@filiptomic3423]

Ohh i remember that episode

[@TAYTEVANS]

Aang!!!!!!!

[@AquaFerva2985]

Holy shit I actually remember that

[@isawisa8713]

The good old days.

[@p0llenp0ny]

4:31 "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line." Boy, this Archimedes dude was sharp as a tack.

[@defi6.058]

@MIHAI S. the shortest distance between two points is to bend time and space itself😶

[@hereticsign]

@@defi6.058 I hope u geniuses realize that u guys are still talking about straight line.

[@aepfelchen1181]

Had to laugh, too lol

[@chris8878]

These ancient libraries get waaaay overblown importance, people act like Egyptians and their writings are like extraterrestrial or pseudo-divine or something. There was most likely a LOT of pagan bullcrap, workings of alchemists (scientists) and political records etc. I love history but some people venerate a time when the most brutal behaviors existed (total conquest, mass rape, slave labor, slave soldiers, child sacrifice/ pagans, illiteracy the norm, etc.)

[@soulkitchen1979]

Seems pretty simple once someone does all the work for you.

[@JCAH1]

Cesar ordered his troops to set fire to the enemy fleet in the harbor. That fire grew so large that it spread to Alexandria, eventually engulfing the library. Therefore, the library and the city were not intentionally destroyed, although that makes little difference today. Also, was there any large system put in place to spread knowledge from the library's scrolls to the general population? Remember that during the last 200,000 years, nearly the entire population of the Earth was illiterate in any/every language, until the last few hundred years. And across that time span, the vast majority of everybody's time and effort (including young children) was spent on finding or growing food, and not on systematic education. In some of the large, wealthy civilizations, the very wealthy elite could receive a (very primitive by today's standards) systematic education.

[@urphakeandgey6308]

Honestly, if it didn't get destroyed then, it would've been destroyed later. Egypt has reworked itself and changed ownership so many times throughout history that I'm just not confident.

[@wales2k4747]

AlternateHistoryHub idea for an episode: "What If the Library of Alexandria was NEVER BURNED?"

[@r011ing_thunder6]

wales2k We'd be a thousand years ahead of ourselves. Next!

[@mbaxter22]

wales2k I second that idea!

[@joey882286]

wales2k . We will have real hoverboards by now. Not like the fake one with the two wheels. Pathetic!

[@leightonki6726]

Religion would be world wide punished and thinking would be highly regarded. A center of moral peace and communication.

[@rizingpho3nix]

wales2k Basically the Vatican stole everything and kept it for themselves.

[@ice1602]

That’s why you don’t ever keep all your data in one place. Backup backup backup!!! :)

[@wizeguy6484]

Maybe they did 🤔🤔

[@wizeguy6484]

Lol too late now I guess

[@ivanbregar1646]

You have to save befoure you exit the game.

[@MrYitzhak]

They did try, to move it and rebuild but it kept hunted down, imagine it today all of our backups are online, what if today the internet will fall forever most backups are useless, most.

[@surajpatil7242]

@@ethereal6279, can an ordinary man like me go through Vatican books just for knowledge?

[@SW_investor]

Isn’t it something that KZbin has the ability to educate far better and more extensively than the curriculum of high school and college combined?

[@trime1851]

There were multiple burnings of the Library of Alexandria: "Despite all this, the library is most famous (or rather infamous) for its burning. Throughout its near 1,000-year history, the library was burned multiple times. According to Plutarch, the first person to blame is Julius Caesar. On his pursuit of Pompey into Egypt in 48 BCE, Caesar was cut off by a large fleet of Egyptian boats in the harbor of Alexandria. He ordered the boats to be burned. The fleet was destroyed, but the flames spread to the city and the library. It’s not known how much of the library was destroyed. When Caesar documented this attack in his account of the civil war, he left out the destruction of the library; however, this is not uncommon of Caesar, who often left out damaging facts about himself in his writing. However, despite this loss, the library lived on. According to reports, Mark Antony gave Cleopatra 200,000 scrolls for the library well after Caesar’s attack. The second, more famous, burning of the library came at the hands of Theophilus who was Patriarch of Alexandria from 385 to 412 CE. He turned the Temple of Serapis into a Christian church. It is likely that the collection was destroyed by the Christians who moved in. Some sources say nearly 10 percent of the library’s collection was housed in the Temple of Serapis. In the following years, the Christian attack against the library escalated, and the last great pagan philosopher and librarian, Hypatia, was tortured and killed. She was flayed alive by sharp seashells by the Christians. The final blow came in 640 CE when Alexandria came under Muslim rule. The Muslim ruler, Caliph Omar, asserted that the library’s contents would “either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous.” The contents of the library were then supposedly used as tinder for the city’s bathhouses. Even then, it is said that it took six months for all the materials to burn." It was one of the greatest disasters of human knowledge.

[@nicolegagnon4642]

I agree, I always thought that the loss of this library was the worst thing that happened to humanity. I can't imagine all the knowledge we lost due to the burning.

[@maliceburgoyne495]

Why should anyone give a crap? It just slowed down science from destroying the world. What Caesar did was one of the greatest gifts to humanity.

[@nicolegagnon4642]

Hshsbs Iamgod I'm a truth seeker, no matter where that truth leads me. I value knowledge and our history. I wanna know our TRUE origins

[@maliceburgoyne495]

"Truth". LOL. "No matter where that truth leads me." You sound good and ready to get pied piped foolishly believing that such nonsense exists. Leave the "truth seeking" to the religious nuts.

[@maliceburgoyne495]

Pushed back 500 years from what? From what exactly? That's foolish logic with a gross leap of faith with more assumptions than D.B Cooper's identity.

[@johncreator346]

Malice Burgoyne From the better good life we could had today. Barbarian!!! People like you are blindfolded and live in darkness. People like me seek the light 💡 and desire to benefit all mankind.

[@lucasdeabrielle7375]

This is why aliens are more advance than us. *ANGRY ASF*

[@doofart6736]

Well if aliens were more advanced then us (assuming they exist) they probably would have found and made it to us by now

[@turtletube1392]

@@doofart6736 nah, they dont want to

[@mannyheffley420]

The tsar is always right

[@MrAbomosaa]

@@turtletube1392 Why not? They could invade us or take our knoledge..

[@SpideyVids]

@@MrAbomosaa They have a prime directive of non-interference just like Star Trek... there are, of course, some hostile exceptions.

[@charleyhansen4866]

My man thanks for all the free infotainment

[@brintonsdad]

By the time the library was burnt, it was not the place of learned renown of it's glory days. It had been in disrepair and much of it's holdings had already vanished from time due to neglect. That it was anything more than a run down dump at the time of it's destruction is one of the oldest Urban Legends of history..

[@miraqum]

Would someone explain to me how it is that the Vatican library has been "left locked" like this with no access to the knowledge within it? I don't understand why there isn't unbelievable amounts of pressure from all over the world, scientists,officials,governments, PEOPLE, to gain access!!

[@markroger93]

im sure someone has access. i believe there is alien writting in there saying how they used to help humanity

[@Anonymous-ro5fv]

Hmmm....Perhaps the small group of families that own the media, governments and corporations are intentionally avoiding that topic. Just like they avoid every other topic that isn't, either directly or in-directly, pushing their propaganda, hysteria and agenda. Just a thought. Peace, Love and Health to ALL! Kind Regards George

[@michaelbooster2]

it's to hide people from the truth, its always like that...

[@vonilao2209]

who are u to command Vatican

[@landonbrawe5380]

von ilao who is the Vatican to hide generations of history and knowledge?

[@JD-po3yl]

Just play Assassins Creed Origins, go to the library and read the books duh

[@jochi7585]

JD wrong city

[@jacobbergau6009]

@@jochi7585 uhhh no?

[@JahBreed]

They're all idiots. Its not they're fault.

[@AGON17]

Jah Breed their*

[@JahBreed]

@@AGON17 I'm a mess. Been a mess for a few months.😭I spelled 'Shrewd', 'Shrude' at one point! Who the fxxk mispells 'Shrewd'!?😭Gawdammit! I'm falling apart😭

[@thoughtsfired1704]

I've been trying for years for this information to reach the right person. There is no easy way to say this. God told me as a child." The books in the Library of Alexandria appeared to be burned but we're not burned." Everything I've learned up until this point makes perfect sense with that. Happy to discuss with anybody that calls BS

[@gfk6560]

BS

[@overdrivedrinker8284]

If you talk to god, that’s one thing, you’re religious. But if you claim god talks to you, that’s the beginnings of delusion and an unwell mind. Or maybe you just had a dream about it, the brain makes up all kinds of weird shit in dreams.

[@commvessv1]

Good to see some content from you jimmy, great topic to boot. Look forward to more, loved the one you done on DMT also bro.🇦🇺🇺🇸🇦🇺🇺🇸🥂

[@danielestefano6122]

And the second largest destruction of human knowledge was the burning of Baghdad.

[@Lennartnieuwland]

Daniel Estefano why? did they have such libraries?

[@Beyonder1987]

Lennart Nieuwland Library Baghdad was the biggest library ever until to that point before it was destroyed by the.mongols

[@Lennartnieuwland]

Beyonder thanks, didn't know.

[@magiv4205]

+Beyonder Baghdad was also one of the most culturally and scientifically advances places back then, and most of that either went up in flames or got lost for hundreds of years.

[@rollingthunder8630]

Lennart Nieuwland Baghdad had the House of Wisdom, the largest library in the world at that time. Mongols burned it to the ground.

[@HepCatJack]

It's too bad that backups hadn't been invented yet... Ghengis Khan also destroyed a precious library in Iraq.

[@blegh2780]

I thought it was one of his descendants though

[@rajc2257]

Jacques Gauthier the house of Wisdom and it was hulagu Khan not Genghis

[@tahabashir3779]

It was hulagu khan.

[@jijdom]

It wad the mongolians who today call themselves turks. They did invade the middle east and burned everything down including the famous library of baghdad full of books and knowledge.

[@jijdom]

@bigkahunaburger yes. Turks are originally central/east asian people. Thats why turkish language for examle has absolutely no similarity with its neighbour countrys.

[@mattrosich]

Burning down the library in Alexandria would be just as bad as KZbin banning this channel! LOL. keep up the good work, WE ALL appreciate it bro

[@BrokeHistory]

Interesting perspective. I was let go from my university because they claimed I was "changing history" but history is in the eye of the beholder.

[@lyncharles4856]

damnit Julius

[@mr.qwerty3125]

Lyn Charles now I'm glad that nigga was assassinated

[@anon2427]

Mr. Qwerty who Trayvon?

[@jaidsalgado]

Traplord Farquaad fuck you

[@F1RacingFans]

Lyn Charles i honestly doubt it was julius there isn't much proof of that there are other more likely scenarios out there

[@KyChristensen]

Lyn Charles "I said go LEARN..." J. Caesar

[@FrenchfryGamer]

I have a strong urge to build a time machine whenever this is brought up

[@ChocoPelaakanava]

nothing of importance was lost.

[@thwalesproductions]

@@ChocoPelaakanava COUGH this library today would mean we could have flying cars, robots we would probably be on Mars by 2000. This library could of made us MUCH MORE ADVANCED TODAY

[@ChocoPelaakanava]

Tyiler Hanks Literally almost all of the books were copied somewhere else.

[@dandan1611]

@@thwalesproductions well that sure is some bullshit

[@yeahbronah6319]

Hey i mean thats possible bro , not joking

[@dronezone2955]

Great content bro I love it

[@still_your_zelda]

I did learn about it in high school and college, but thankfully I had teachers that valued history enough to also be sad about the event as well. I didn't know this much in depth about it, but it was taught when I was in school not too long ago.

[@zenmetalasaurus4880]

They destroyed esoteric and scientific knowledge, like the Zohar, which was taken from the old testaments. Why? Because that knowledge was our power. It's still happening today.

[@kokothegreat5583]

So true!!!

[@noelq5325]

I know something about the Zohar Modifier the ancient source for power like ether. It was there Lacan made contact with the wave existence the bodiless being from the higher dimensional space.

[@curiousone4757]

I'm developing my power

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@noelq5325 Zohar

[@jameshamm1267]

History is written by the victors. An they tell the tale they would like to be known

[@magistrumartium]

I'm so sick of that saying. Long, long ago it had some truth to it but in modern times, when billions of people can read and write, history is written by losers as well as winners. The US lost the war in Vietnam and there are many, many books and documentaries about it, written by Americans, so there's just one example. Losers write history too, not just victors.

[@jameshamm1267]

@@magistrumartium An how many average folk will ever read about the other outlook or even know those books exist. Education an self thought is lacking in the states so long as people follow the program as they will that statement will hold more truth than it needs to.

[@ChemistryAmsterdam]

2018 Same

[@ChemistryAmsterdam]

@@jameshamm1267 well, Julius could have called the libary Fake News 😂 Why burn it!? If you dont like a topic like Alex Jones, just delete the section.

[@neo1053]

James very true statement

[@sherishaffertheartistandmy7948]

The topic of the burning of the library of Alexandria hurts my soul in a way that doesn't make sense.

[@annprehn]

Please do something on what's under the Vatican, it's accessibility or lack thereof. Love your stuff.

[@MrMiamiswaggz305]

Disgusting, the destruction of knowledge.

[@victorluna9434]

MrMiamiswaggz305 I agree it truly is a shame

[@poisonsquid37]

It wasn't destroyed just stolen. Now the pedophile rapists in the Vatican have it.

[@PatrickBaptist]

Right, the vatican is a host to many paintings of naked children. Figures islam came from them.

[@pangtsr]

Patrick TheBaptist it was handed to them by the almighty extraterrestrial fidget chicken. It came down from the sky leaving chemtrails. Lord Rothschild was driving it.

[@jermmcnasty420]

MrMiamiswaggz305 if they destroy the knowledge then they can shape history any way they like.

[@lyledeyounges1276]

The Library was built during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, Alexander's general, and the city was founded by Alexander - so the library would have been around 250 years old. Most ancient sources, like Plutarch, claimed that the library was destroyed during the siege of Alexandria when Caesar had to burn his own fleet and the fire spread to the harbour, but that the damage was not beyond repair. It was of course a tragedy for the city, and the Hellenistic world in particular, but a lot of people seem to forget that the library of Alexandria was not the only library in the world (and a lot of temples, especially in Egypt, also functioned as libraries to a lesser extent), and do not take into account that a lot of the scrolls had been copied, as you mention. Undeniably some scrolls were lost forever, but the events of 48-47 BC did not set civilisation back a 1000 years - but I get that nothing depicts "end of civilisation" like a library on fire.

[@micheletravis9057]

That is so sad, I feel like crying. So much was lost.

[@nincsjonev]

Not to mention the library was operating until the 7th century.

[@JaeElle]

I agree that the knowledge was copied and all over, however, all over was all over the world. This was one repository that contained knowledge from everywhere. Collectively, this was irreplaceable once burned. Gathering all that information again? Travel was dangerous even more so than today. I don't know the numbers but a significant percentage didn't make it back home. A large percentage would be lost to the sea and the only proof it ever existed would be the library of Alexandria. Also, like everywhere else battle happened destroying documentation. Other cultures might not put this same importance on preservation of written knowledge. Other places ships might be captured and people enslaved, the documentation to slave sellers was not terribly important. Egypt using papyrus to write their history on we see it didn't stand the ages, it deteriorated as time went on and as the culture rather disappeared. This was true of many cultures. Besides all of these considerations having one place that was sort of a backup for all culture was convenient. Pretending it didn't burn for a moment we could go pour over these documents from everywhere, learning from humanity collectively. Perhaps seeing two views of the same battle or multiple views of a historical event. This would be unbelievable, and yes, we absolutely lost so much information. If everything is still out there in cataloged libraries how do we not have that knowledge today? Entire cultures lost to us, traditions, people, explanations of awe inspiring buildings they left behind... we have no information on the majority of our ancestors. India seems to have the best idea of their history but even then they have blanks. No, we lost a great deal of knowledge. Setting us back 1k years? I'm not sure... how do you quantify the loss of knowledge that we might never get back ever again. I don't know if we can put a number on years we've been set back since we don't know what's lost. I don't understand the burning library representing end of civilization comment exactly... but i can say that where there's no way to say how much we were set back that also applies to it's impossible to say that it did not set civilization back 1k years. I don't believe anyone, let alone you or I could present a definitive statement like that.

[@eric4681702]

I cried thinking about it. So sad that so much knowledge is lost. We cant cry enough, this was a huge crime, it maddens me.

[@Reck_on_ing]

Let’s just sayCesar dead get what you could from the library. What are the chances of it being in the Vatican?

[@josephipattersonh6933]

Thank you for your honesty

[@cooliosur7790]

And we have so much more dating back further. Recommendation on the Dead Sea Scrolls?! Great video!! .