James WuJul 22, 2023

TIL there was no single burning of the historic Great Library of Alexandria. The “single burning” story is just myth.

Instead, the Library of Alexandria was slowly defunded and its librarians, intellectuals purged from Alexandria. Over generations its prominence and scholarship slowly faded away, and the collection was likely slowly lost to corruption, war, plunder, dilapidation, or dispersed across other private and public collections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia

Show threadCrazyMyra
@analogist A whole lot of history (as we're now taught) is like this. Future children will be told the climate crisis was a cataclysmic event condensed into a few years, while we've known about the problem for a century already 😕
Jul 23, 2023 at 4:46amWeb
Show threadRodneyPetersonTalentAgencyJul 23, 2023
@OutOnTheMoors @analogist What future children? At the end of it we’ll be really lucky to have a society rivaling Waterworld or the very end of Cloud Atlas.
Show threadCrazyMyraJul 23, 2023
@RodneyPetersonTalent @analogist There's a good chance the species will survive - but not in large numbers