Did you know that the Library of Alexandria didn’t fall like most people think? This video is all about the Great Library of Alexandria, how it worked, and how its fall did not, actually, set human knowledge back thousands of years.

The Library of Alexandria was established under the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt (323-30 BCE) and flourished under the patronage of the early kings to become the most famous library of the ancient world, attracting scholars from around the Mediterranean, and making Alexandria the preeminent intellectual center of its time until its decline after 145 BCE.

Alexandria may have been able to boast of the greatest library in the ancient world under the early Ptolemies, but no account from antiquity supports the claim that the library was still a great intellectual center by the Roman Period. It is clear, from references in the works of various ancient writers, that a considerable number of manuscripts were lost at Alexandria between c. 48 BCE and 415 CE, but what these were is unknown. Many of the works referenced as part of the library's collection still exist today all over the world and form part of the collection of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina ("Library of Alexandria"), which opened in 2002 in Alexandria, Egypt, as an homage to the great library of antiquity.

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— CHAPTERS —
0:00​ Introduction
0:46 The Library of Alexandria
2:25 The Establishment of the Library
3:50 Head Librarians of the Library
5:28 Organisation & Acquisitions
7:30 Decline & Fall of the Great Library
10:45 Survival of the Library's Collection
12:42 Outro

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Library of Alexandria
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What happened to the Great Library at Alexandria?
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Alexandria, Egypt
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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A Weekend in Alexandria, Egyptwww.worldhistory.org/article/1768/a-weekend-in-ale…

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