The library of Alexandria #Documentary #alexandria #library ##History

When the Library of Alexandria burned how much of history died with it they say it held the knowledge of the ancient world all of it every scroll every theory every star ever mapped built in Egypt when Egypt still remembered it wasn't just a building it was a brain a memory a beating heart of science mathematics astronomy philosophy even things we still don't understand today they had surgical tools we only reinvented a thousand years later descriptions of machines we still can't build maps of stars we only confirmed with satellites thousands of years ahead of us then it burned nobody knows how or who some say Julius Caesar some say religious zealots others say it was fear because what was stored inside was power when it burned we didn't just lose books we lost blueprints cures ideas dreams a thousand years of progress erased in smoke maybe the dark ages didn't come after the fall of Rome maybe they began the moment we said fire to the library that could have lit the world