Re: VMs: Re: Alexandria [was: Nabatean, was; Personal Guess]

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I stand (or sit) corrected :-)

> From: "Barbara Barrett"
> <barbarabarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 12 August 2003 00:51
> Subject: VMs: Alexandria [was: Nabatean, was;
> Personal Guess]
> 
> > Jeff Jotted;
> > >... When Alexandria was burnt a lot of
> > > written text went with it along with the
> accumulated knowledge.

> > A misconception I'm afraid, and one I used to
> believe myself: [...]

Don't worry (or rather: do). Lots of libraries have
been burnt in the course of history, and innumerable
works of poetry, science etc have been lost.

I think even quite recently a major library
in Baghdad burned, which somehow did not get
too much attention - I've been wondering about
it ever since.

Cheers, Rene

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