PapierPanierPiano 2 guys making a video about the same topic does not mean one stole from the other. Is it really that difficult to believe that 2 people had the idea to make a video about arguably one of the most disastrous moments in history?
Probably didn't help having a fairly flammable building completely stuffed to the brim with kindling. Then again, it was finally taken out by the Muslim Calif and they probably didn't burn it down but dismantled it and repurposed the masonry for other things like they did in most other cities they conquered. When you think of the building as a giant tinderbox, it's more impressive that the hundreds of thousands of people that came through that library, there weren't more accidental fires from candles and torches.
Plot twist: When they finally found the list of titles at the Library of Alexendria, they discovered 90% of the books were romance novels and teen vampire series...
+Malik Josenius no, voice is right. Because his accent is just a small part of his voice (accent definition: a distinctive way of pronouncing a language) The words that he emphasizes, and the slight pauses make it all the more funny. Also (even if your correction was correct) we all would've known what he meant, and it wouldn't need correcting. Just like almost every other youtube comment. So just in case you do this a lot, please stop, it's annoying.
@@laisensei6984 actually the IT world does it all the time. while a database cant be made indestructible, if your database is in the US, you can make a back up in the EU and then another one in Australia. all 3 must be destroyed at the same time or else a back up copy of your data is somewhere. if the Alexandrians made like 1 or 2 back ups and updated them once every year or so much of the data could have been preserved.
@@jonmcfluffy9699 That would require awfully a lot of man power considering this is BC we are talking about. And which locations should be selected as back up is also a problem. It's kinda apparent that the scholars of Alexandria would like to keep all this knowledge to themselves, so selecting a different city for back up is likely to get disapproved (as it would give access to scholars outside Alexandria). If you do the back up near Alexandria, it could get burned as well should the fire spread too far.
Another story that always makes me cringe is when I found out that the Spanish stole all the gold plates and books from the Aztecs, handed them over to the Catholic church, and then the priests MELTED them down and destroyed all that valuable information and genealogy because obviously "every book that's not the bible is evil and must be destroyed" Makes me want to cry when I think about what was lost.
Wait a minute. They MELTED all the plates? So what we see in those fancy golden books and bibles of that era are actually like south american heritage destroyed?!?!?!?! I had never heard of this and I'm so upset now😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠 why woul- aghgjgghhggghhggh!!!!!!
@stephen w humanity it's just f**ked up, why would they need to do such thing, all the massacres, the violence, the stealing for nothing, in the end everyone dies.
@@VickaCastello IT's stuff not taught. It's usually glossed-over, if mentioned at all, what the conquistadors did to natives in the Americas--it was horrific...Aztec human sacrifices are child's play, compared with what europeans did in the americas, while Catholics painted a pretty picture of "all their good works" to bring the natives into more modern living...no, slavery. Yeah..they destroyed nearly everything they could find, to wipe out the Native spirituality, their culture, everything.
Justin Bayless it probably would have burned down eventually. What they should have done is made copies of the books and store them in a secret location. They were already hand copying some of them anyway so they should of thought of redundancy.
Every time i think of it I feel like myself not commiting to making something of it's kind in the here and now is doing a disservice to future generations.
They did have a back up system, every manuscript was copied! If every manuscript was copied and sent back to the owner as well as copies to other libraries than there were multiple copies of each manuscript spread all over the world! Saying we lost all that knowledge is a absolute lie! The library had several fires and was in disrepair for 200 years before it was finally burned to the ground...
@@samuelmarberry4761 you make a salient point. I wonder how many of those copies given to the original owner are still around, I would think some may have ended up in the Vatican.
The 4 most tragic events in history: 1: The destruction of the Library of Alexandria 2: The death of Isaac Newton 3: The death of Albert Einstein 4: The death of Stephen Hawking
Not it wasn't. It sucks that the scrolls were lost, but anyone who says it set humanity back is being ignorant about the topic. -First of all there was not single burning of the Library of Alexandria, it decayed over time like most libraries do and was probably gone by the 4th Century when it was supposedly "burned". -The Library of Alexandria wasn't the only library in the ancient world. the Libraries of Pergamon, Ephesus and Constantinople all competed with it in terms of the size of their collections. -The Ancient Greeks did not have a concept of "science" the way we see it today. The Greeks did not value experminentation the way modern science does. What the Greeks did could be more accurately described as "natural philosophy". -The library was not a secular institution but rather an annex to the Museion, the temple to the Muses. The library was in part used to honor the Muses. -There's no evidence any technology was lost after the library dissapearred, and it is doubtful there was anything crucial in there. Most of what was lost in the library would have been historical records. Invaluable to be sure, but not something that set us back 1,000 years or any such hyperbolic nonsense, merely something that severely limited our understanding of our own past.
marvelfannumber1 That was just my opinion. I know that the Alexandrian library wasn't the only library to exist back then, nor was it the one source of knowledge and information from that time but that doesn't mean that it wasn't an awful thing to happen. Losing that much information is sad, we can never get that back. I never said that it put humanity back thousands of years either, that's just speculation mostly because we have no idea what was in the library we can only assume. As someone who loves history I find it very sad, just as sad as the destruction of any other important land mark whether it held as much information as the library or not. When ever I think about the destruction of Circus Maximus or the Colossus of Rhodes it makes me incredibly sad because those are things we can never get back. They're priceless, there's no replica, there's no way of returning what we lost. The only thing that separates the Alexandrian library from other structures that have been destroyed is that a lot of knowledge and information that could have given us a glimpse into the past went with it.
You know the scary thing about 12:40 is today's society is leaning heavily in this direction. Destroy thoughts and ideas that aren't in agreement with certain elements, and if they are incorporate them still. Humanity really does never learn a damn thing about itself or it's history
I would say way more to blame is the fall of the roman empire and the catholic church taking possession of and hiding away all books for a good 1000 years till the renaissance. The roman empire was in the early stages of industrialization, a level we did not reach again for over 1000 years. There was no real drop in technology after the library of alexandria fell, but there was a huge after rome fell.
I believe they secretely did. And stored (maybe the most important parts) in the Vatican. Today, the Vatican doesnt want us to know the real truths about our history.
It wasn't the fire in library of Alexandria that set back humanity. It was human who thought destroying the library was a good idea that set humanity back.
the human set fire to the boats which set fire to the building. if cesar had known there was more boats when he invaded he probably would have not set fire to the boats
@@debbylou5729 Ok yes, he set fire to the boats, however look at the time in history, it's not like they could call the fire brigade, setting fire to anything in any city, has a huge chance of spreading and burning most of said city down.
A Goat I don't think the world was the one who got fucked in the end it was America oh look what's that it's 🛬 and then America's erections finally went down
It wasn't just this library that was burned that set back humanity. The House of Wisdom owned by the Persian Empire had a lot of the Greek knowledge and there knowledge stored. It is documented that the library had a large archive of medical and scientific knowledge. Although, people may argue that it is not as great as the Great Library of Alexandria. However, the destruction of the House of Wisdom was detrimental to human achievement also. Yeah... The mongols really set human progress back a lot.... Also, we put satellites to get the circumference of the earth for the sake of accuracy. Lol. Accuracy is important for us in the math field. Thanks :)
The Great Library lost its funding before Caesar's time, and it was all downhill from there. Once a library loses government support, the collection tends to evaporate either thru decay or pilferage. By Caesar's time, there were very few researchers there, and they spent most of their time going down rabbit-holes of literary criticism. So I think that the loss of the Great Library is a mere legend, a romanticized tale like the Elephants' Graveyard. The only thing I regret losing is the historical works of the emperor Claudius. He gathered all the available records of the Etruscans and the Carthaginians, and wrote two histories of them. Even his harshest critics admit that Claudius was gifted as a historian (like, "He should have stuck with writing histories.") And he had adequate sources to work from. His works were the definitive histories of those times, superseding all others, and then ALL of the materials were later lost. We know from surviving Roman records that he built an annex to the Great Library and deposited his manuscripts there.
There would be no point except for historical knowledge We are at a point we’re the real knowledge would be irrelevant but a nice little historical who first
@@robolo4228 It is said once an idear is out in the world it can never be undone again and yet there are those who argue that knowlege has been lost and not been recovered again. I agree that modern science not the less due to its methodology has surpassed anything what has been before, that does but not exclude the possibility that the antic agyptians may have had technics we know nothing about today and may even beenficial to us if we would. Besides i am rather at odds with the concept of timetravel hrhr. Not only have i never seen in the science fiction a logical sound way described nor do i accept sofar what science would tell us about such an idear. Aslong it is not done and we see the outcome i assume it can not be done, still for some theoretical arguments it is nice to assume it could be.
@Ben Branson which would lead to paradoxons. Like f.e.: What happens when what you did in the past would prevent ancestors of yours to be born? I don't buy it that then a parallel world, a multiverse or some other neat trick SciFi writers came up with to get their storries straight would happen. Even if just for fun some mathematicians and physics professors would came up with a theory i still would not buy it, till someone from the future comes along with patents for future tech.
@Ben Branson "you don't see" that i did not disagree. What i am saying further is that the whole timetravel as a concept is bullshit to begin with and neither have i ever seen any SciFi author package it in a way that no logical flaws are apparent nore have i seen any Scientist put it in a way that it makes sense. A citat on time by a scientist which makes the most sense is: "Time is a process, not a place" That was in a documentation about quantum gravity which needed to define time slightly differently or at least point it out that way.
@Heyward Shepherd Well, the fact that he did his experiment AND GOT ACCURATE RESULTS should be proof enough that he was able to figure out high noon in both cities. I'm pretty sure there were sundials and so forth at the time, and that such devices had been around for a while. Not particularly rocket science, but some pretty amazing arithmetic given the era.
how about you do, but copy them and put them in another library? i mean, imagine having to travel by horse, boat and foot from say Athens to Alexandria just to read the second part of a book?
Correct, and to add to that, also have as many copies of the book as possible and store it around the safest places around the world, just like the concept of the doomsday vault!!
That is exactly what the clever monks in Christian monastaries did. Continously copying and translating all the books in their respective monastaries and then passed on the copies to other monastaries, or sold them, so that the knowledge could be spread and be copied again by someone else in another location, should the monastary with the original book be burned down.
@@drewthompson7457 I recently found a copy of a "legal" document" on twitter that is the filing of a lawsuit for several prominent politicians, including at least two former Presidents, for a black-op of 911.
@@drewthompson7457 But is it real? www.docdroid.net/zmVDhA4/d2-peter-munk-george-soros-cheney-paul-wolfowitz-hwbush-gwbush-john-kerry-clinton-september-11-attack.pdf#page=4
The Everything Show That would require a lot of things to go wrong (or right, depending on your perspective) at once due to the robustness of their infrastructure.
Only the elites were allowed to read those scrolls. If they had allowed everyone to read, appreciate and copy them, those scrolls might never have been lost.
True, even in modern libraries, shits get stolen. Guess what Greece needed was a strict membership system. If only we had that, we would have flying cars by now
Now here we are , present day earth. Slash your wrists style society and lifestyle. Take me back to the days of the medjay, Pharos , gods. Im a true believer now , this world is damn boring due to having to work just to eat,shit n piss. The elites ruined those scrolls because if they hadn't nobody would be working or paying taxes , its all a scheme. The lord says we all should have had our own land, our own things therefore theres no envy or jealousy , this world is a luck and right place right time style environment atm. History is the key, hopefully all these weird things happening around world will wipe out half or 3-4 of humanity.
Half of the area that was known as alexandria in ancient times is now underwater, due to coastal errosion. So it hasn't been bult over exactly. And that is the fate of most of the historically important cities in antiquity, London, Rome atc, are all built over older, often mroe interesting parts of themselves.
@@aidansumner8364 flat earthers did exist, it was believed in most old religions, but the majority of the more educated people believed that earth was round.
Because they wont burn that or those will they. Why think people just discovered the importance of redundancy? If knowledge was lost then it must not have been being used....
the Sumerians were smarter in using clay tablets. Even today, we don't have a better way of storing info. It will all be lost when the mob returns, and it will.
@@JaEDLanc "Grammar cop" would be more accurate. Lawful Good, not Lawful Evil. And you're right. I'm not a teacher. I used to proofread Yellow Page ads for a living, though, and I'm professionally trained in typography.
That's what I thought on failing to get past the first page of Euclid's book. The differentiation between right angles and obtuse triangles brought up suppressed memories from 4th grade i'd rather not face.
@@exoticcats6119 Because religious leaders in general do not want an educated populace. It's the only way they can keep selling their fantasies and then use that to control the masses, and to profit from them. It is thought the Vatican vault has lost knowledge kept in it, but I doubt much, if any, has anything to do with the Alexandrian library.
@@hristoitchov It could be very plausible since Vatican was built before Christianity was accepted in Roman empire. And Vatican was always though to be some sacred place. Also for example Obelisk in Vatican is directly from Egypt I don't want to go much deep in to crazy theories but it is a big thought that Pharaohs actually hid themselves in Europe and along that they may have moved Alexandrian library to Vatican. Vatican is also being guarded by Swiss Army and Swiss in general is thought to be run by those Pharaohs but I know its big conspiracy theory. But there is a lot of symbolism considering all of that that connects. For example Christian cross derives from Egyptian cross...
This video is false. There were no scrolls in the library. It was falling into disrepair, and they eventually sent all the scrolls throughout Europe. The fire may have happened, but it definitely did not burn the scrolls.
Hugh Mann not necessarily,we probably have the internet alot earlier but limitations of the time etc meant otherwise, The issue is millennials are ignorant to alot of things that isn't on the internet !!
It sucks how changing one thing in history can screw everything up so dramatically... it also sucks how selfish hoarding of information screws everyone.
We can still hoard a lot of information in one website now that we have the internet, in fact we can hoard even more knowledge since there is a LOT of space in the internet and it's safe so it can't be destroyed😊😊😊
"Scheduled for completion in 2020" - In January 2018 work had been halted because middle east gotta middle east and it has yet to resume to this day (March 1 2021)
Information weighs nothing, and is only useless until it is priceless. It may not be correct but knowing what you don't know is the first place to start.
Julius Caesar: Bob, your fire arrow was off. Bob: It seems so, I set fire on a huge pub with papers in it. 2000years later Thoughty2: Julius Caesar accidentally burned down the library.
Not a christian myself, but I do feel it gets unjustly judged too often today. Case in point: Eugenics and the Holocaust. This was a titanic massacre done in the name of science. Darwin's theory of evolution is one of the greatest creations to ever come from science. It kicked opened the doors to the ancient universe theory, united all the fields of geology, biology, and ecology, with all those strange bone/shell shaped rocks we were finding everywhere. It also revealed our place and our behaviors and nature as animals on this planet. But then some people twisted this idea and decided we needed to push evolution further by selectively eliminating traits, people, and whole races that they deemed unfit to breed. You also have to consider the many innovative, extraordinary, and powerful new ways that science has given us to kill each other: from gatling guns with explosive bullets, to sarin gas and nerve agents, to engineered weaponized superviruses, to single missiles that contain up to 12 thermonuclear warheads that will each target separate cities hundreds of miles apart. Religion, on the other hand, gave us the Golden Rule. It was the impetus for the quakers (religious evangelists) to lead escaped slaves to the north. It also is the leading source of charity worldwide. The obvious conclusion is that neither religion nor science themselves are "good or bad". It's how Man decides to use them that matters.
CheetahFoxx Religion consistently kidnaps science to wage wars. Pure science does not start wars but with religion to act as tinder, science can be used to spark it. Even thing such as the holocaust were at least partially religion motivated (a major factor) Science taken in without views created by the existence (or lack there of )of religion has not currently been used to initiate any wars,battles or conflicts.Religion on the other hand well... it didnt just leave a mark is burnt history
Don't worry brother I've been joined to this channel for some time now. This man is incredibly intelligently smart. I've been watching video after video and each thing he talks about captivates me
We probably do have some of the writings that were in the library (or the text itself at least) for that very reason: most of what was in the library was floating around elsewhere as well. We just don't know it when we do since they didn't have a digital library catalog for us to consult lol
There were 5-9mn books present in Nalanda University which were burnt down in 1193 by Bakhtiar Khilji and the University burnt for 4-6months. Nalanda University was the 2nd oldest University in the world.
They mostly did, the copies were made using writing systems with a limited set of characters in combinations, which represented words. But the drawings were probably analog copies.
They made digital copies but forgot to backup their files. Only this time it wasnt a fire, it was a virus from downloading too much porn and resulting in the computer needing restarted to factory settings. Luckily about 200,000 of these digital scrolls were stolen by a hacker coincidentally named Julius Caesar and backed up on an external harddrive, and he planned to create mass copies the following day. Sadly, he accidentally fell asleep with a lit cigarette and his house caught fire burning everything inside.
You don’t understand. Memory density on ancient HDD’s was very low. Remember how those hard drives in the 60’s/ 70’s? We’re like washing machines? Scale that back 2 millennia. The antykythera mechanism was really just part of one of the heads.
@@jesusgonzalez6719 I know a guy that has a list of over a 100 names. Funny enough, he actually have thought about educating himself to be a boat captain :D
I heard that there was one scroll entitled something like “The History of the Ancient World”. That’s ancient as of 2000 years ago. It may have talked about Atlantis, giants, etc.
1)Ah yes, facebook research. 2)Even _accepted_ history goes back five thousand years. the Egyptian pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
As a really HUGE geek and nerd, but also, as a human, I think the burning of the library is one of the most tragic events that EVER happened to the human race.
Ethan Amiran not one of,but THE most tragic event,9/11 was a minor setback,compared to a library that was equal to that of the internet at the time,and could literally put us at space travel by now,how sad.(Greeks and Romans were great once,sad to see that they no longer had the genius they once had)
Abdelrahman Sadawey yeah but I just hate how people say it's extremely tragic,when events that setback the future of humanity are the only truly tragic events to take place,deaths of millions,in truth,isn't as significant considering how many humans there are,the death of men nowadays,is lesser than the destruction of knowledge.
Who would win: one of best historical libraries with thousands upon thousands of scriptures containing vast historical and mathematical knowledge, or a red boi
But more electricity can be made and information can be stored on hard drives so really what you want to do it have a huge magnetic pulse destroy everything
Being held by the elites to dazzle us with the invention of modern tech that's actually ancient tech. The fire was probably planned and certain scrolls and info removed. The ships was probably a distraction.
in college i wrote a 10 page paper on why the "burning" (there were many separate fires over its life) of the library had essentially no impact on the course of scientific discovery or the proliferation of knowledge. basically the library was heavily defunded and the position of running the library had gone from being reserved for skilled librarians to being given away as a reward to people who did political favors causing it to be largely run in to the ground before it was destroyed. It is true though there were other great libraries in other empires and very little was lost in that incident. I suggested that the myth was so pervasive in modern society because we like to believe that we have progressed and view ourselves as more civilized so we fantasize that religious barbarians took the knowledge from us but ita funny to think that the past is in many ways very similar to the present. the library was destroyed by political corruption and bureaucracy.
If the library wasn't destroyed We might have had that right now... Well it wouldn't be that useful But y'know we could still watch history porn... right??
"When the great library burned, the first 10,000 years of stories reduced to ash, but those stories never really vanished they became a new story, the story of the fire itself." ~Dr. Robert Ford, WestWorld
That might be the most non sensical and pointless quote about anything that I’ve ever seen in my life. They became the story of the fire? The fuck does that even mean? This is what happens when dumb people try to sound smart.
@@richardtherichard26 you're not very bright aren't you? Imagine responding with anger to something you don't understand. Maybe invest a few braincells to understand what he means yeah?
"as a society, we must NEVER let another book burn...
Unless it's Fifty Shades of Grey"
-Thoughty2 /agree
Or the Bible and other seditious material
@@larrychilders6599 unless its your life story.
But the fact is, Books get censored every day.
XD
You forgot about Twilight.
This will incur a lot of angry replies
*Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.*
he stole his content?
ruclips.net/video/gYpU1e3m9G0/видео.html
I don’t remember the fire nation using commercial planes to crash into buildings
PapierPanierPiano 2 guys making a video about the same topic does not mean one stole from the other. Is it really that difficult to believe that 2 people had the idea to make a video about arguably one of the most disastrous moments in history?
ants canadia
I have a yellow lab with a fat stripe down his back named appa XD
The saddest “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” story.
redundancy would have been nice, but try copying 700k scrolls by hand :(
@@salzstangl. Well, thats what they did
Probably didn't help having a fairly flammable building completely stuffed to the brim with kindling. Then again, it was finally taken out by the Muslim Calif and they probably didn't burn it down but dismantled it and repurposed the masonry for other things like they did in most other cities they conquered.
When you think of the building as a giant tinderbox, it's more impressive that the hundreds of thousands of people that came through that library, there weren't more accidental fires from candles and torches.
+he i. Yes, that's even worse. If you did it once you know how hard it is.
They don’t set it back 1000 years. The scrolls were copied, remember?
Plot twist: When they finally found the list of titles at the Library of Alexendria, they discovered 90% of the books were romance novels and teen vampire series...
😆
If that could have prevented Twilight, it would still be worth it...
Ha!!! Right??!!
I'm sure there were porn in there.
And many were past due for return 🤨
"the mighty DOUBLE erection"
his voice made it a thousand times better
erect bois
I can't help but laugh
who would win
the hard work ofthe Egyptian people
or
two erect bois
*accent :)
+Malik Josenius no, voice is right. Because his accent is just a small part of his voice (accent definition: a distinctive way of pronouncing a language)
The words that he emphasizes, and the slight pauses make it all the more funny. Also (even if your correction was correct) we all would've known what he meant, and it wouldn't need correcting. Just like almost every other youtube comment. So just in case you do this a lot, please stop, it's annoying.
Who else knew this was gonna be about the Library of Alexandria from the title alone?
Jeremiah Catingub me
From the title, it was pretty obvious only Alexandria could fill the bill.
r/iamverysmqrt
2 minutes in, an im wondering if i was wrong about it being about alexandria
@@moguldamongrel3054 I mean talking about erections and towers isn't too much of a stretch.
Ironically, the only bit of knowledge the Library of Alexandria apparently didn't contain was how to build a fire-proof library.
You mean fireproof parchment
@@Dingbobber or a fireproof scrolls
@@Dingbobber I don't think it's possible to make a parchment or scroll fireproof though. What material would you use for that?
@@laisensei6984 actually the IT world does it all the time. while a database cant be made indestructible, if your database is in the US, you can make a back up in the EU and then another one in Australia. all 3 must be destroyed at the same time or else a back up copy of your data is somewhere.
if the Alexandrians made like 1 or 2 back ups and updated them once every year or so much of the data could have been preserved.
@@jonmcfluffy9699 That would require awfully a lot of man power considering this is BC we are talking about. And which locations should be selected as back up is also a problem. It's kinda apparent that the scholars of Alexandria would like to keep all this knowledge to themselves, so selecting a different city for back up is likely to get disapproved (as it would give access to scholars outside Alexandria). If you do the back up near Alexandria, it could get burned as well should the fire spread too far.
The loss of the Library of Alexandria has always deeply bothered me. I would love to have seen it. 700,000 scrolls up in smoke...tragic.
me too. I would of loved to of seen the place, and go inside at it's height. Would of been breath taking.
considering that they were commandeering ships' documents a good portion of those scrolls would have been unexciting ships' manifests and logbooks.
It was preserved in the form of Junior Woodchuck Guidebook.
If you can snort the Ashes of the scrolls, you can achieve infinite knowledge.
Mostly garbage and the rest was available in other locations. Nothing of value was lost.
Quick reminder. ALWAYS use a backup!
Exactly. Problem was there was no Backup for the info in the library of Alexandria.Well they did not have cloud storage back then.
@@thandasibisi7534 what about back up scrolls in a back up building
"RAID" for Recopy Alexandria Infos Double-time...
@@DigiPal raid is not a backup... Even raid 1. But like it anyway!
@@Mr_nah Oh, what is it?
As far as I know, RAID put two copies of the same 0111001 on two hard drive... Maybe I'm wrong...
Everyone: How big is the earth?
Eratosthenes: Hold this stick of mine!
te0nani
Julius Ceasar: Oopsie, just passing by!
They held his erection firmly hahaha
Eratosthenes: the earth is 400000km in diameter
Soviets: actualy...
more like Erasthotenes:bring my stick here before I wap you with it,now pay close antention
Who would win?
An entire society of flat earth conspiracy theorist
or
One Sticky boi
"Mighty double errection", I cannot be the only one who laughed when he said that.
not the only one
Just about to comment on thus too hehehe, double erection
i was hunting this one down
You’re not alone
Lmfao, I couldn't stop laughing at that
Another story that always makes me cringe is when I found out that the Spanish stole all the gold plates and books from the Aztecs, handed them over to the Catholic church, and then the priests MELTED them down and destroyed all that valuable information and genealogy because obviously "every book that's not the bible is evil and must be destroyed" Makes me want to cry when I think about what was lost.
Wait a minute. They MELTED all the plates? So what we see in those fancy golden books and bibles of that era are actually like south american heritage destroyed?!?!?!?! I had never heard of this and I'm so upset now😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠 why woul- aghgjgghhggghhggh!!!!!!
Yeah, fuck religion and the God you rode in on.
@stephen w humanity it's just f**ked up, why would they need to do such thing, all the massacres, the violence, the stealing for nothing, in the end everyone dies.
And yet people still do the same thing today by censoring books, altering history and destroying statues.
@@VickaCastello IT's stuff not taught. It's usually glossed-over, if mentioned at all, what the conquistadors did to natives in the Americas--it was horrific...Aztec human sacrifices are child's play, compared with what europeans did in the americas, while Catholics painted a pretty picture of "all their good works" to bring the natives into more modern living...no, slavery.
Yeah..they destroyed nearly everything they could find, to wipe out the Native spirituality, their culture, everything.
My favorite answer to the question: "If you could go back in time, what would you change?"
....Bring a printing press to the Library of Alexandria...
or maybe a sprinkler system
I'll burn it down before ceasar could get to it.
Far Cup
Bet you found out that you had a lower IQ then a dog and got annoyed
@@niglit5272 ouch. That hit home
That's what I've been thinking, if I go back in time I'd go and copy all the stuff and then come home
so youtube could have been launched in 1,005
Plate Productions I could have been born in 1006!
Qwart22 nope
I could have created games in 1019
I wouldn't have enjoyed that. Thanks Caesar for all your dickishness
Justin Bayless it probably would have burned down eventually. What they should have done is made copies of the books and store them in a secret location. They were already hand copying some of them anyway so they should of thought of redundancy.
I actually get a tear in my eye at mention of the Library of Alexandria. :(
Every time i think of it I feel like myself not commiting to making something of it's kind in the here and now is doing a disservice to future generations.
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick Finding Alexandria is easy, also not the point. And nobody knows all it contained, that IS the point...
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick haha you need attention kid? Try some tide pod.
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick Uh if you know about the Library of Alexandria you probably know where the fuck is it you sour sock
I got a tear in my balls...
Moral of the story: have you backed up your computer today?
@Lucas Bianchi my experience is that you need more than two.
@Lucas Bianchi Dara redundancy
They did have a back up system, every manuscript was copied! If every manuscript was copied and sent back to the owner as well as copies to other libraries than there were multiple copies of each manuscript spread all over the world!
Saying we lost all that knowledge is a absolute lie! The library had several fires and was in disrepair for 200 years before it was finally burned to the ground...
indeed i have
@@samuelmarberry4761 you make a salient point. I wonder how many of those copies given to the original owner are still around, I would think some may have ended up in the Vatican.
The burning of the Alexandrian library kills me, it's beyond tragic.
Maria Caputo just takes one dumbass...
Maria Caputo bruh, we don’t need libraries just use google
The 4 most tragic events in history:
1: The destruction of the Library of Alexandria
2: The death of Isaac Newton
3: The death of Albert Einstein
4: The death of Stephen Hawking
Not it wasn't. It sucks that the scrolls were lost, but anyone who says it set humanity back is being ignorant about the topic.
-First of all there was not single burning of the Library of Alexandria, it decayed over time like most libraries do and was probably gone by the 4th Century when it was supposedly "burned".
-The Library of Alexandria wasn't the only library in the ancient world. the Libraries of Pergamon, Ephesus and Constantinople all competed with it in terms of the size of their collections.
-The Ancient Greeks did not have a concept of "science" the way we see it today. The Greeks did not value experminentation the way modern science does. What the Greeks did could be more accurately described as "natural philosophy".
-The library was not a secular institution but rather an annex to the Museion, the temple to the Muses. The library was in part used to honor the Muses.
-There's no evidence any technology was lost after the library dissapearred, and it is doubtful there was anything crucial in there. Most of what was lost in the library would have been historical records. Invaluable to be sure, but not something that set us back 1,000 years or any such hyperbolic nonsense, merely something that severely limited our understanding of our own past.
marvelfannumber1 That was just my opinion. I know that the Alexandrian library wasn't the only library to exist back then, nor was it the one source of knowledge and information from that time but that doesn't mean that it wasn't an awful thing to happen. Losing that much information is sad, we can never get that back. I never said that it put humanity back thousands of years either, that's just speculation mostly because we have no idea what was in the library we can only assume. As someone who loves history I find it very sad, just as sad as the destruction of any other important land mark whether it held as much information as the library or not. When ever I think about the destruction of Circus Maximus or the Colossus of Rhodes it makes me incredibly sad because those are things we can never get back. They're priceless, there's no replica, there's no way of returning what we lost. The only thing that separates the Alexandrian library from other structures that have been destroyed is that a lot of knowledge and information that could have given us a glimpse into the past went with it.
Never underestimate a man with a stick
Justin Penney an erected stick
Justin Penney
*that's what she said*
Otherwise you will suffer the consequences
Or for that matter, a man with a MATCHstick....
@@peterfichera2027 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌 genius
Who would win?
Billions of dollars spent on space technology
Or
One ancient stick boi
hghg46204 stick boi, cause the laws of quantum physics allow it.
Stick boi mastering the elements of the world
Aaron McCarthy pilot wave theory
Billions of dollars spent on space but the stick boi found out a MUCH cheper way to do it *very accurete*
St0rm Ranger lol all human knowledge. Except not. It hardly has anything in comparison to the akashic records.
You know the scary thing about 12:40 is today's society is leaning heavily in this direction. Destroy thoughts and ideas that aren't in agreement with certain elements, and if they are incorporate them still. Humanity really does never learn a damn thing about itself or it's history
Sad isnt it...
If we forget the past we are doomed to repeat it!
they keep cancelling it all so never learn
wash rinse repeat 😐
we live in a society
STUPID people never learn a thing, stupid, phobic people are the most dangerous....
unfortunately the ancient Greek didn't know the proverb "don't put all your scrolls in one library" :/
Zman888 alexandria was in ancient egypt not greece. Common sense bru
Underrated comment.
I think that we learned this from their mistake.
@@xFLyiNR3TarDx he even said it in the video
And Egypt was ruled by Greeks for several hundred years starting with Alexander lasting until Caesar.
So we could have had dank memes even In the 11th century
Yes
Nobody can prove that that is not what would have happened
🤣
The hoosher dank memes are too stupid for the knowledge inside that library. I doubt we would be lol
I would say way more to blame is the fall of the roman empire and the catholic church taking possession of and hiding away all books for a good 1000 years till the renaissance. The roman empire was in the early stages of industrialization, a level we did not reach again for over 1000 years. There was no real drop in technology after the library of alexandria fell, but there was a huge after rome fell.
This is why you should always backup your data
Lmao that's what I was thinking
your*
Think alex jones should have done that? Lol
With Backblaze!
I believe they secretely did. And stored (maybe the most important parts) in the Vatican. Today, the Vatican doesnt want us to know the real truths about our history.
It wasn't the fire in library of Alexandria that set back humanity. It was human who thought destroying the library was a good idea that set humanity back.
the human set fire to the boats which set fire to the building. if cesar had known there was more boats when he invaded he probably would have not set fire to the boats
actually that is a very good point.
You weren't paying attention. He didn't set fire to the library
@@debbylou5729 Ok yes, he set fire to the boats, however look at the time in history, it's not like they could call the fire brigade, setting fire to anything in any city, has a huge chance of spreading and burning most of said city down.
“America managed 2 more erections..and held on to it for an impressive 67 years!” 😂😂
And they held on to it for 67 years
Lol erections
Da’s one long erection
A Goat
I don't think the world was the one who got fucked in the end it was America oh look what's that it's 🛬 and then America's erections finally went down
dark knight what viagra where they using?
It wasn't just this library that was burned that set back humanity. The House of Wisdom owned by the Persian Empire had a lot of the Greek knowledge and there knowledge stored. It is documented that the library had a large archive of medical and scientific knowledge. Although, people may argue that it is not as great as the Great Library of Alexandria. However, the destruction of the House of Wisdom was detrimental to human achievement also. Yeah... The mongols really set human progress back a lot....
Also, we put satellites to get the circumference of the earth for the sake of accuracy. Lol. Accuracy is important for us in the math field. Thanks :)
Home of wisdom was in Baghdad Arabic not Persian!
Thank you man with stick. Very cool
good thing he dint had a pointend stick ^^
Smegma Lasagna your profile pic is creepy
Mal Luk that's from a Junji Ito manga
i hate manga
Grumpy Hater why
The Great Library lost its funding before Caesar's time, and it was all downhill from there. Once a library loses government support, the collection tends to evaporate either thru decay or pilferage. By Caesar's time, there were very few researchers there, and they spent most of their time going down rabbit-holes of literary criticism.
So I think that the loss of the Great Library is a mere legend, a romanticized tale like the Elephants' Graveyard.
The only thing I regret losing is the historical works of the emperor Claudius. He gathered all the available records of the Etruscans and the Carthaginians, and wrote two histories of them. Even his harshest critics admit that Claudius was gifted as a historian (like, "He should have stuck with writing histories.") And he had adequate sources to work from. His works were the definitive histories of those times, superseding all others, and then ALL of the materials were later lost.
We know from surviving Roman records that he built an annex to the Great Library and deposited his manuscripts there.
If timetravel would be possible, gathering lost knowledge seems to me the only reasonable thing to do with it.
agreed
There would be no point except for historical knowledge
We are at a point we’re the real knowledge would be irrelevant but a nice little historical who first
@@robolo4228 It is said once an idear is out in the world it can never be undone again and yet there are those who argue that knowlege has been lost and not been recovered again. I agree that modern science not the less due to its methodology has surpassed anything what has been before, that does but not exclude the possibility that the antic agyptians may have had technics we know nothing about today and may even beenficial to us if we would.
Besides i am rather at odds with the concept of timetravel hrhr. Not only have i never seen in the science fiction a logical sound way described nor do i accept sofar what science would tell us about such an idear. Aslong it is not done and we see the outcome i assume it can not be done, still for some theoretical arguments it is nice to assume it could be.
@Ben Branson which would lead to paradoxons. Like f.e.: What happens when what you did in the past would prevent ancestors of yours to be born? I don't buy it that then a parallel world, a multiverse or some other neat trick SciFi writers came up with to get their storries straight would happen. Even if just for fun some mathematicians and physics professors would came up with a theory i still would not buy it, till someone from the future comes along with patents for future tech.
@Ben Branson "you don't see" that i did not disagree. What i am saying further is that the whole timetravel as a concept is bullshit to begin with and neither have i ever seen any SciFi author package it in a way that no logical flaws are apparent nore have i seen any Scientist put it in a way that it makes sense. A citat on time by a scientist which makes the most sense is: "Time is a process, not a place" That was in a documentation about quantum gravity which needed to define time slightly differently or at least point it out that way.
“Well done man with stick, very impressive” - the history of human innovation
All stick men rise up 🤺
@Heyward Shepherd Well, the fact that he did his experiment AND GOT ACCURATE RESULTS should be proof enough that he was able to figure out high noon in both cities. I'm pretty sure there were sundials and so forth at the time, and that such devices had been around for a while. Not particularly rocket science, but some pretty amazing arithmetic given the era.
That's not the lesson to be learned. The Lesson is don't store all your books in one Library.
how about you do, but copy them and put them in another library?
i mean, imagine having to travel by horse, boat and foot from say Athens to Alexandria just to read the second part of a book?
Correct, and to add to that, also have as many copies of the book as possible and store it around the safest places around the world, just like the concept of the doomsday vault!!
That is exactly what the clever monks in Christian monastaries did. Continously copying and translating all the books in their respective monastaries and then passed on the copies to other monastaries, or sold them, so that the knowledge could be spread and be copied again by someone else in another location, should the monastary with the original book be burned down.
@Rene It's called writing it down again.
Yknow, what monks did for centuries.
@Rene 100 people copying 1 book a day will produce 700000 copies in 19.17 years; nothing compared to the 2000 years it's been
I cry every time I think about it.
I have wept myself to sleep for lifetimes over this.
*e r e c t i o n*
Hoars * e r e c t i o n * e r e c t i o n *
*An enlarged and rigid state of the penis*
*erection*
Hoars Child
wtf why he uses that word at first ????
I had a way over due library book once. The thought did cross my mind.
back in 2013 i got a library book and accidentally lost it. about a week ago i found it in a box. i dont even want to know how much i owe them XD
Bruh sloooow down dude your gonna art is back another 1000 years
I was wondering if all the "erections" were unintended until "Compensation Tower." 😂🤣😂🤣
Do the Americans suffer from ED? They're the only country to have steel framed skyscrapers collaspe from fire - 3 in 1 day.
@@drewthompson7457 How did they turn to ash dust and crumble right before the camera?
He was funny the way he purposely kept referring to "erections" 😂🤣😂🤣
@@drewthompson7457 I recently found a copy of a "legal" document" on twitter that is the filing of a lawsuit for several prominent politicians, including at least two former Presidents, for a black-op of 911.
@@drewthompson7457 But is it real? www.docdroid.net/zmVDhA4/d2-peter-munk-george-soros-cheney-paul-wolfowitz-hwbush-gwbush-john-kerry-clinton-september-11-attack.pdf#page=4
Truly heartbreaking. Such a loss for everyone.
The library of Alexandria was the ancient Internet
Nope. The internet is free and open for the most part. Only the elites were allowed to read from that library.
What if the Google servers burned down.
The Everything Show That would require a lot of things to go wrong (or right, depending on your perspective) at once due to the robustness of their infrastructure.
The Everything Show I'd simultaneously laugh and cry
nope, it is a central thing (no backup)
10:22 At that moment, Julius Caesar knew he f.cked up...
imagine yourself saying that in Morgan Freeman's voice...
Only the elites were allowed to read those scrolls. If they had allowed everyone to read, appreciate and copy them, those scrolls might never have been lost.
Meta In the ancient ages most people could not read
Based on what we know today, the scrolls would have probably for the most part been vandalized and stolen xd
True, even in modern libraries, shits get stolen. Guess what Greece needed was a strict membership system. If only we had that, we would have flying cars by now
If the Library of Alexandria was around today, I would totally go read a lot of shit.
Now here we are , present day earth. Slash your wrists style society and lifestyle. Take me back to the days of the medjay, Pharos , gods. Im a true believer now , this world is damn boring due to having to work just to eat,shit n piss. The elites ruined those scrolls because if they hadn't nobody would be working or paying taxes , its all a scheme. The lord says we all should have had our own land, our own things therefore theres no envy or jealousy , this world is a luck and right place right time style environment atm. History is the key, hopefully all these weird things happening around world will wipe out half or 3-4 of humanity.
It's crazy to see how Thoughty's voice and appearance has changed over the years!
Not really, it's quite natural.
nature is crazy
It's such a shame the city of Alexadria was not preserved and was destroyed and built over. It would of been a marvel to see now .
not like these double erections ;)
Daniel Asher their was No city of Alexandria it a collective of territories Alexander named after himself , so there was no one Alexandria!
Nick Beaudry No, there was (and still is) a city called Alexandria in Egypt. It's not the only one, but that city definitely existed
Would have*
Half of the area that was known as alexandria in ancient times is now underwater, due to coastal errosion. So it hasn't been bult over exactly. And that is the fate of most of the historically important cities in antiquity, London, Rome atc, are all built over older, often mroe interesting parts of themselves.
Comments: Erection Jokes>Talking about the loss of knowledge
Erections divert blood from the brain which can lead to a loss of knowledge. Those subjects are closer related than you might think.
When a guy with a stick debunks every flat earth theory 😂
Hey let me just put my ruler in the ground well would you look at that the earth is 4000km normal day for me let me just write that down.
No they aren't.
LongShot501 Minecraft and More I like your kind of people. Stay open minded forever.
@@aidansumner8364 flat earthers did exist, it was believed in most old religions, but the majority of the more educated people believed that earth was round.
@@emily8223 curious as to your thoughts on evolution if youre christian.
One lesson we can all take from this disaster? ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP!
Because they wont burn that or those will they. Why think people just discovered the importance of redundancy? If knowledge was lost then it must not have been being used....
This would have been a nice opportunity to promote some brand of backup service
Yep Yep
the Sumerians were smarter in using clay tablets. Even today, we don't have a better way of storing info. It will all be lost when the mob returns, and it will.
The modern library of Alexandria, and the largest and best one, is the internet
It's actually the Web. The Internet is merely a transportation medium for the information contained within the Web.
Best one? 1 solar flare and everything is gone.
@@ThePerfectOwnage you do know that we've been working on a physical archive of any educational material that is online since around 2012 right?
@@discordedwhoofs7873 And how? Books? Anything electronic will be rendered useless.
@@ThePerfectOwnage again a physical archive. Meaning that it's not electronically archived, but written down for the exact reason you just stated.
I guess this is how we lost the answers on how the pyramids were build
@NCR Trooper "would have"
@NCR Trooper The Soul of Perseverance compels me. Nothing personal.
@NCR Trooper Ave, True to Caesar!
@@AhmedElsayed-ur1iy Down with imperialism! All to the Republic!
@@JaEDLanc "Grammar cop" would be more accurate. Lawful Good, not Lawful Evil. And you're right. I'm not a teacher. I used to proofread Yellow Page ads for a living, though, and I'm professionally trained in typography.
"Jeddah tower: finished in 2020"
If he'd known...
Construction is on hold for years now... Gods know when it's gona be finished
@@iluminaticonfirmed34 3020
*Julius Caesar has been kicked for griefing*
*grieving**
Azer Efendizade Found the wannabe gamer
@@ye-xf5mw Then 3 wannabes follow in Julius Caesar's footsteps
@@azerefendizade6017 *griefing
Plus air pipe tunes
*THE MIGHTY*
*D O U B L E E R E C T I O N*
乃ㄖ丨 XD
乃ㄖ丨 ikr
*WOAHHHHH!!!*
Its good to know yall have penis jokes over there too lol.
Wow, it almost makes me want to learn more about Mathematics. ... Almost.
That's what I thought on failing to get past the first page of Euclid's book. The differentiation between right angles and obtuse triangles brought up suppressed memories from 4th grade i'd rather not face.
No more FUCKING MATH
@@saitama_discord409 hell ye brother
@@saitama_discord409 Preach
ALMOST
This isn't rubbish it's amazing it's knowledge knowledge is power
What if the romans took the knowledge out first then burned it under direct orders. And the files are actually in the vatician's vault
pollard1997 Why doesn’t anyone use these books then? It would have helped everyone else a lot if everyone had knowledge from these books.
@@exoticcats6119 Because religious leaders in general do not want an educated populace. It's the only way they can keep selling their fantasies and then use that to control the masses, and to profit from them. It is thought the Vatican vault has lost knowledge kept in it, but I doubt much, if any, has anything to do with the Alexandrian library.
@@hristoitchov It could be very plausible since Vatican was built before Christianity was accepted in Roman empire. And Vatican was always though to be some sacred place. Also for example Obelisk in Vatican is directly from Egypt I don't want to go much deep in to crazy theories but it is a big thought that Pharaohs actually hid themselves in Europe and along that they may have moved Alexandrian library to Vatican. Vatican is also being guarded by Swiss Army and Swiss in general is thought to be run by those Pharaohs but I know its big conspiracy theory. But there is a lot of symbolism considering all of that that connects. For example Christian cross derives from Egyptian cross...
This video is false. There were no scrolls in the library. It was falling into disrepair, and they eventually sent all the scrolls throughout Europe. The fire may have happened, but it definitely did not burn the scrolls.
@@ftsrwr college. Plus, you dont have to look too hard to confirm it. I wasnt 100% sure until I googled it, since it's been a while.
*If those mofos were so smart, why didn't they invent Dropbox*
Hugh Mann niggas woulda made internet if they were smart
yeah
Hugh Mann lol
Hugh Mann not necessarily,we probably have the internet alot earlier but limitations of the time etc meant otherwise,
The issue is millennials are ignorant to alot of things that isn't on the internet !!
@Transcendence ewk watch your mouth . You don't even sound natural 😂😂
"compensation tower" lol
If you or a loved one was diagnosed with Mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
*_-Subscribe for a cookie-_* no chill 😂😂
Alexander was so ahead of his time in so many ways
that moment when you finished your 4 hour long homework and your computer crashes before you save.
alexandria could relate. 😂
The Computer Crash that set superstriker7us 4 hours
Windows Update: Hey doing homework? Don't worry, you can redo it after we force close your document and reboot.
“Homework” yes homework
retire
Knowledge: *Exists*
Fire: It's free real estate
It sucks how changing one thing in history can screw everything up so dramatically... it also sucks how selfish hoarding of information screws everyone.
Pointing at the Vatican and Smithsonian.
We can still hoard a lot of information in one website now that we have the internet, in fact we can hoard even more knowledge since there is a LOT of space in the internet and it's safe so it can't be destroyed😊😊😊
@@wanderingnomad7928 hackers-
Didn’t happen. Read about ancient libraries. Don’t jump to conclusions.
Alexanders plan was to open 2 more Libraries. Books were being copied to fill those sites, unfortunately Alex died before the Libraries were built.
"Scheduled for completion in 2020" - In January 2018 work had been halted because middle east gotta middle east and it has yet to resume to this day (March 1 2021)
I was peacefully having my coffee when I chocked upon hearing someone enthusiastically yell out 'double errection'.
Petronas Tower is at Malaysia. Built by the 4th prime minister.
Petronas Tower is at Malaysia. Built by the 4th prime minister.
'A knife that toast bread as you slice it' Colin made that! we are in the future!!
Can we get 5000 subscribers with no videos? No.
I saw you somewhere else
10000 degree knife
Can we get 5000 subscribers with no videos? I found you again
Oh Wow (Are you talking about Colin furze?)
"So as a society may we never let another book burn, unless it's Fifty Shades of Grey."
Thank goodness!
I think a lot of people want to burn books by JK Rowling now.
Or the whole twilight series
Your profile pic is one of the most anxiety inducing things I've ever seen.
@@sennyside 😇
It is surprising that each scroll was one of a kind, as he mentioned they would copy scrolls on ships that were searched
Before watching video I gonna say... Burning of Library of Alexandria.
Same here
Saaaaame
He said in the video that you think so...
same.
yeah that what i thought when i saw the title
*"America managed 2 more erections"*
My mind is too dirty
Don't forget about the *"mighty double erection"*
oh no
Dont worry Bro you are not alone.
"Scheduled for finishing in 2020"
Now: welp dont think thats gunna happen ·_·
@Baxi Tabaxi you're
@@seanzc5230 correct, but dont correct people in youtube, people might get offended-
Aaaaand now its 2021
Information weighs nothing, and is only useless until it is priceless. It may not be correct but knowing what you don't know is the first place to start.
67 Year Erection.. A Doc should take a look at that.
You guys......🙄
67 likes on this lmao
@@ballsackjoe not fore long
I hope I can still get an erection when I’m 67.
@@Kevin-jb2pv I cant even get one at 15...
Julius Caesar: Bob, your fire arrow was off.
Bob: It seems so, I set fire on a huge pub with papers in it.
2000years later
Thoughty2: Julius Caesar accidentally burned down the library.
Bob XDDDDDD
No it wasn't Bob... It was Biggus Dickus
no, Bob is short for Bobus Maximus
*"Except if its Fifty Shades of Grey"*
And Twilight!
And anything regarding religion
Nothing personal, pure business
Not a christian myself, but I do feel it gets unjustly judged too often today.
Case in point: Eugenics and the Holocaust. This was a titanic massacre done in the name of science. Darwin's theory of evolution is one of the greatest creations to ever come from science. It kicked opened the doors to the ancient universe theory, united all the fields of geology, biology, and ecology, with all those strange bone/shell shaped rocks we were finding everywhere. It also revealed our place and our behaviors and nature as animals on this planet. But then some people twisted this idea and decided we needed to push evolution further by selectively eliminating traits, people, and whole races that they deemed unfit to breed.
You also have to consider the many innovative, extraordinary, and powerful new ways that science has given us to kill each other: from gatling guns with explosive bullets, to sarin gas and nerve agents, to engineered weaponized superviruses, to single missiles that contain up to 12 thermonuclear warheads that will each target separate cities hundreds of miles apart.
Religion, on the other hand, gave us the Golden Rule. It was the impetus for the quakers (religious evangelists) to lead escaped slaves to the north. It also is the leading source of charity worldwide. The obvious conclusion is that neither religion nor science themselves are "good or bad". It's how Man decides to use them that matters.
CheetahFoxx Religion consistently kidnaps science to wage wars. Pure science does not start wars but with religion to act as tinder, science can be used to spark it. Even thing such as the holocaust were at least partially religion motivated (a major factor)
Science taken in without views created by the existence (or lack there of )of religion has not currently been used to initiate any wars,battles or conflicts.Religion on the other hand well... it didnt just leave a mark is burnt history
Don't worry brother I've been joined to this channel for some time now. This man is incredibly intelligently smart. I've been watching video after video and each thing he talks about captivates me
BUT there is a lesson to be learned in this........and that lesson is DO NOT put all your eggs in one basket!!
Enter, the internet.
So true
Paper is fragile, easily destroyed. Should have used clay tablets instead.
Well done man with stick,Very Impressive!
Based man with stick.
If the original scrolls were confiscated for the library. And a copy given back the owner. Shouldn't there be a lot of copies still in existence?
You telling me you keep track of your receipts better than Amazon?
We probably do have some of the writings that were in the library (or the text itself at least) for that very reason: most of what was in the library was floating around elsewhere as well. We just don't know it when we do since they didn't have a digital library catalog for us to consult lol
Or possibly documents too important to risk bringing to Alexandria, once the sailors knew the deal.
@@MetalSandman999
Well damn, that means there really was no lost knowledge that could propel man forward a thousand years.
The libary was like a university most of the usefull and important knowledge was created there and burned there
There were 5-9mn books present in Nalanda University which were burnt down in 1193 by Bakhtiar Khilji and the University burnt for 4-6months.
Nalanda University was the 2nd oldest University in the world.
I’m watching this in 2020.. yeah that tower is gonna take a littttllllleeeee longer
2021 now
2022 now
@@Heisenberg-so9vj hey wait a minute
42069 now
133742069 now 🙁
Smh why didn’t they just make digital copies
They mostly did, the copies were made using writing systems with a limited set of characters in combinations, which represented words.
But the drawings were probably analog copies.
They made digital copies but forgot to backup their files. Only this time it wasnt a fire, it was a virus from downloading too much porn and resulting in the computer needing restarted to factory settings. Luckily about 200,000 of these digital scrolls were stolen by a hacker coincidentally named Julius Caesar and backed up on an external harddrive, and he planned to create mass copies the following day. Sadly, he accidentally fell asleep with a lit cigarette and his house caught fire burning everything inside.
Who else got r/whoosh on speedtype
they stored them on google drive but the owner forgot his password
You don’t understand. Memory density on ancient HDD’s was very low. Remember how those hard drives in the 60’s/ 70’s? We’re like washing machines? Scale that back 2 millennia. The antykythera mechanism was really just part of one of the heads.
What about the libraries of Bagdad
when the Mangols destroyed it the two rivers near the city was too red from blood and too blue from ink
?بغداد بيت الحكمة، you mean
So... Purple?
@@Meisterdieb Yes kinda
@@g4fly4ever8 it's really crazy when you think about how often and how much knowledge was destroyed
@@Meisterdieb Yes what would life would be if Alexandria library or Baghdad Library or any other library weren't destroyed
"A knife that toasts bread as you slice it" 😅 Nice
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Movie)
Why do I have a feeling a lot of the scrolls that got copied were the list of names of chicks the sailors banged in different ports around the world.
I don't think all the ancient sailors were barney stinson😂
Because thats your perspective bashar
@@jesusgonzalez6719 I know a guy that has a list of over a 100 names. Funny enough, he actually have thought about educating himself to be a boat captain :D
@@RRKS I never made a note of their names!
"Well done, man with stick." This guy's a visionary. XD
shutup brony. nobody cares. live alone forever.
@@binalith4898 sounds like somebody has some anger issues...
Imagine going back in time and stopping the fire happening or just seeing an alternate reality where it didn't even happen?
Or imagine being the guy who went back in time and started the fire
dude ikr
Can't happen.
@@DontreadPimpBoy He said "Imagine"
Imma bring the whole fire trucks to go there
Unfortunately no fire extinguishers installed in the library. Learned scholars but little foresight.
Stick man was an OG God of maths
Damn stick values are about to go on the rise
*BURN FIFTY SHADES OF GREY*
They should have backed it up in the cloud
Oh wait...
Does it count as backing it up in the cloud if it is burned and the smoke rises up to the clouds?
They should make thoose copies
Curb your library of alexandria
Don't be silly, its Egypt, there are no clouds there... to hot.
*stores in actual cloud*
*starts raining*
*gets hit on head with book*
I heard that there was one scroll entitled something like “The History of the Ancient World”. That’s ancient as of 2000 years ago. It may have talked about Atlantis, giants, etc.
Atlantis was a wet dream made by Plato.
You diminish knowledge with your statement
@@Euro.Patriot Atlantis has been found cia were involved it's in the Sahara desert btw
1)Ah yes, facebook research. 2)Even _accepted_ history goes back five thousand years. the Egyptian pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
Yes, it was written by a babylonian priest called /bəˈroʊsəs/ .
1000 years ago I would be watching thoughty2 and today I would be flying through space, if only a library had not burnt down
They have the meaning of the E meme in that library, sadly it was one of the 500,000 scrolls that were lost.
They also lost the Elder Scroll.
You need a high IQ to get the E
As a really HUGE geek and nerd, but also, as a human, I think the burning of the library is one of the most tragic events that EVER happened to the human race.
Ethan Amiran not one of,but THE most tragic event,9/11 was a minor setback,compared to a library that was equal to that of the internet at the time,and could literally put us at space travel by now,how sad.(Greeks and Romans were great once,sad to see that they no longer had the genius they once had)
Waterdoggo , there are events way more tragic than 9 September........
Abdelrahman Sadawey yeah but I just hate how people say it's extremely tragic,when events that setback the future of humanity are the only truly tragic events to take place,deaths of millions,in truth,isn't as significant considering how many humans there are,the death of men nowadays,is lesser than the destruction of knowledge.
+Waterdoggo
You clearly have no education regarding the Library of Alexandria and only feel the way you do from a shitty image macro.
JustaRandom StraightGuy The fuck..?
I wish they'd have known the greatest rule of them all. Always keep BACKUPS!
They did. Alas, they tended to leave them in the possession of those owners whose originals had been absconded with by the Library, lol.
Maybe there is an undocumented hidden Backup somewhere out there. The word is a big big place
I love learning knew things from Thoughty2!
Who would win: one of best historical libraries with thousands upon thousands of scriptures containing vast historical and mathematical knowledge, or a red boi
If you want to destroy every piece of knowledge today it´s just the matter of killing the electricity. No fire needed
But more electricity can be made and information can be stored on hard drives so really what you want to do it have a huge magnetic pulse destroy everything
And still there would be the vatican archives.
jason martz like an EMF pulse? From a nuce perhaps and sivilation are kicked back to stone age
petrikov Wich nobody are allowed to enter so it doesnt count
Information can be stored permanently without power.
14:08 well said my man
This is the first time seeing him without the mustache.. im not okay
At the end of the day it was stolen knowledge, the real question is what happened to all the copies?
Yeah that means all of the knowledge is safe but scattered around the world
Being held by the elites to dazzle us with the invention of modern tech that's actually ancient tech. The fire was probably planned and certain scrolls and info removed. The ships was probably a distraction.
@@AeternaQueen where's the part with the lizard people?
No it's hidden in the only place that's just as secret and holy. The Vatican. That's where they took it.
in college i wrote a 10 page paper on why the "burning" (there were many separate fires over its life) of the library had essentially no impact on the course of scientific discovery or the proliferation of knowledge. basically the library was heavily defunded and the position of running the library had gone from being reserved for skilled librarians to being given away as a reward to people who did political favors causing it to be largely run in to the ground before it was destroyed. It is true though there were other great libraries in other empires and very little was lost in that incident. I suggested that the myth was so pervasive in modern society because we like to believe that we have progressed and view ourselves as more civilized so we fantasize that religious barbarians took the knowledge from us but ita funny to think that the past is in many ways very similar to the present. the library was destroyed by political corruption and bureaucracy.
This is why we need the Animus from Assassins Creed to be a real thing
If the library wasn't destroyed
We might have had that right now...
Well it wouldn't be that useful
But y'know we could still watch history porn... right??
The animus would have been invented if it wasn't destroyed
"When the great library burned, the first 10,000 years of stories reduced to ash, but those stories never really vanished they became a new story, the story of the fire itself." ~Dr. Robert Ford, WestWorld
fuck you
@@darkracer1252 fuck you
That might be the most non sensical and pointless quote about anything that I’ve ever seen in my life. They became the story of the fire? The fuck does that even mean? This is what happens when dumb people try to sound smart.
@@richardtherichard26 you're not very bright aren't you? Imagine responding with anger to something you don't understand. Maybe invest a few braincells to understand what he means yeah?
dumb statement
1:05 * 2020 crying *