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The Library of Alexandria The first known library to attempt to collect every book in existence and so store all the World's knowledge.

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1 The Library of Alexandria The first known library to attempt to collect every book in existence and so store all the World's knowledge.

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3 Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions:

4 1.Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC

5 Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions: 1.Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC 2.By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD

6 Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions: 1.Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC 2.By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD 3.A Coptic Christian mob by decree of a Coptic Pope AD 391 to destroy all “pagan” material

7 Difficult to know exactly what happened but it seems to have been destroyed wholly or partly on four occasions: 1.Accidentally by Julius Caesar 48 BC 2.By the Emperor Aurelian 270-275 AD 3.A Coptic Christian mob by decree of a Coptic Pope AD 391 to destroy all “pagan” material 4.Muslim Conquest >642 AD

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