THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE GREATEST MYTH IN HISTORY
Episode 5 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Library of Alexandria — and the myth that a single dramatic fire destroyed it. Julius Caesar didn't burn it. The Christians didn't burn it. The Arabs didn't burn it. The real story of what the Library was, how it was actually lost, and what that loss actually means is more disturbing than the myth.
This episode covers the Library's founding as a research complex, the scholarship it produced from Eratosthenes's measurement of the earth to Aristarchus's heliocentric model, the multiple events that…
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