chavezery: proudfeministconservative: deal-breaker: nerdgirl-to-the-rescue: ohmygil: ultrafacts:auss
chavezery: proudfeministconservative: deal-breaker: nerdgirl-to-the-rescue: ohmygil: ultrafacts:aussietory: third-way-is-best-way: tuxedoandex: kvotheunkvothe: ultrafacts: Source For more facts follow Ultrafacts EVERY TIME SOMEONE BRINGS UP THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA I GET SO ANGRY. but why Because it got burned. All of that knowledge, lost forever. The library was destroyed over 1000’s of years ago. The library consisted of thousands of scrolls and books about mathematics, engineering, physiology, geography, blueprints, medicine, plays, & important scriptures. Thinkers from all over the Mediterranean used to come to Alexandria to study.Most of the major work of civilization up until that point was lost. If the library still survived till this day, society may have been more advanced and we would sure know more about the ancient world. That graphic grinds my gears every time I see it guess what, it was the christians Alright fuckers, nobody actually knows who burned down the Library of Alexandria, and what the fuck is that graph? What are the units of measurement? “Scientific Advance”? What does that even mean? In which cultures? Are we going to ignore the rest of the world, I thought Tumblr didn’t like that? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT GRAPH?PS, one of the possibilities for who burned down the library were “The Muslims”, so… shove it with your Christian hate, Tumblr. aussietory:Nice bullshit image, my friend.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7CanyzhZghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NVdk3ki1w0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqzq01i2O3UNow pls gtfo with your anti-christian propagandadeal-breaker:Guess the fuck whathttps://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=who%20burned%20down%20library%20alexandriaThis would have occurred in 48 BC, during the fighting between Caesar and Ptolemy XIII. In the 2nd century AD, the Roman historian Aulus Gellius wrote in his book Attic Nights that the Royal Alexandrian Library was burned by mistake when some of Caesar’s soldiers started a fire.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#DestructionDuring Caesar’s Civil War, Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria in 48 BC. Many ancient sources describe Caesar setting fire to his own ships and state that this fire spread to the library, destroying it.“[W]hen the enemy endeavored to cut off his communication by sea, he was forced to divert that danger by setting fire to his own ships, which, after burning the docks, thence spread on and destroyed the great library.”http://www.jonsorensen.net/2013/02/19/did-christians-burn-down-the-famous-library-of-alexandria/http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa-history-important-events/destruction-great-library-alexandria-001644Christians destroying it is only one of several theories. The first stories that surfaced on it were that Caesar fucked up. I know this is fucking dumb, I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking when I posted this. -- source link