The famous Egyptian Alexandria, as you know, was built by Alexander the Great, who wanted it to become a scientific center, a city in which all the greatest minds would gather.
And for these ancient geniuses, a magnificent library was created, with large halls and rooms for the work of scientists. Its first caretaker was the Athenian Demetrius Falersky, who wrote the work "On a light beam in the sky" - modern ufologists believe that it is about UFOs.
Alexandria became exactly what the Macedonian wanted - a refuge for the intellectual elite. The most prominent pundits worked in the library, in which one could find ancient papyri, parchments and, as legend says, even printed books.
Over the long years of its existence, the library has accumulated about 700 thousand manuscripts in all languages of the time, written with love by priests, learned men, writers and historians. For example, among other things, there are many rare Indian manuscripts that tell amazing things. They say that there were the works of Pythagoras, Solomon and even Hermes Trismegistus - a mythical god.
The works of the Phoenician historian Mocus, who is credited with creating the theory of atoms, were also kept in Alexandria.
It also contained the legacy of the Babylonian priest Berossus, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, who fled to Greece. Berossus is known as a historian, astrologer and astronomer. He invented the sun dial and put forward the theory of the addition of sun and moon rays - the forerunner of modern work on the interference of light. It is curious that in some of his writings, Berossus mentioned the civilization of giants and an underwater civilization.
But this unique collection of the rarest manuscripts and information about the true past of the planet was savagely destroyed.
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For the first time, the plundering of the Alexandria library was arranged by the famous Julius Caesar - in 47 BC, and then the library was plundered and destroyed several times by Zenobia Septimia, queen of Palmyra, and the emperor Aurelian and the emperor Diocletian.
It was finally destroyed by the Arab conquerors, guided by the motto: "No other books are needed except the Koran." Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in 641 ordered the commander Amr ibn al-As to burn the library of Alexandria, saying: “If these books say what is in the Koran, then they are useless”. And in 646 the Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground.
Author: Natalia Trubinovskaya