Hi Hermione ... Just relying on my memory at the moment since I still need my wake up coffee but seems to me that The Romans, specifically Julius Caesar burned The Library for the first time:
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The first person blamed for the destruction of the Library is none other than Julius Caesar himself. In 48 BC, Caesar was pursuing Pompey into Egypt when he was suddenly cut off by an Egyptian fleet at Alexandria. Greatly outnumbered and in enemy territory, Caesar ordered the ships in the harbor to be set on fire. The fire spread and destroyed the Egyptian fleet. Unfortunately, it also burned down part of the city - the area where the great Library stood. Caesar wrote of starting the fire in the harbor but neglected to mention the burning of the Library. Such an omission proves little since he was not in the habit of including unflattering facts while writing his own history. But Caesar was not without public detractors. If he was solely to blame for the disappearance of the Library it is very likely significant documentation on the affair would exist today.
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The Library housed thousands of years of the ancient Kemetic teachings confiscated with its invasion approx 1700 BCE. Items and Information that would have been considered Ancient to them.
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the Library of Alexandria was more than just a library, it was a research center, a university, and medical school. It existed for almost seven hundred years.
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Well first off, It’s been burned down 3 times. The first and most crucial of which was the by Julius Caesar in the year 48 BC. And there recently have been claims that Caesar accidentally burned down the library, as there is an effort to hide the brutality of such a praised barbarian as Julius Caesar.
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Baghdad is number 4 on the list:
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"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db