The Library of Alexandria - The Crime That Set Human Civilization Back 1,000 Years

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • The burning of the Library of Alexandria in Ancient Egypt ranks among the worst crimes committed against humanity in known history. Lost scientific research including physics and anatomy and medicine, as well as knowledge and documentation of culture and history is widely believed to have set human civilization back significantly. Carl Sagan himself stated that the burning of the library of Alexandria likely set humanity back 1,000 years.

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  • @Greyfoxdbz18
    @Greyfoxdbz18 7 лет назад +3339

    I feel like the saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket" came from this library being burned down. They should have uploaded to the cloud.

    • @turnbrain3049
      @turnbrain3049 7 лет назад +43

      Greyfoxdbz18 LOL

    • @powerplayer75
      @powerplayer75 7 лет назад +53

      Greyfoxdbz18 they probably would have burned down the cloud.
      in case you dont know thats actually possible.

    • @wiirules13
      @wiirules13 7 лет назад +73

      Even the cloud can get corrupted

    • @ThreeWickedWonders
      @ThreeWickedWonders 7 лет назад +56

      error 404: Ra not found

    • @Pupcaller8
      @Pupcaller8 7 лет назад +27

      Greyfoxdbz18 yeah man what the fuck why didn't they backup their data?

  • @issamissa902
    @issamissa902 6 лет назад +10492

    * having a good time in life *
    * remembers the burning of alexandria library *
    * get angry af *

    • @attspace
      @attspace 6 лет назад +74

      issa m æ ł ï şş ā it can ruin any day..

    • @028TuvaluanHero
      @028TuvaluanHero 6 лет назад +236

      The world could've been different.

    • @marshallfischer3667
      @marshallfischer3667 6 лет назад +151

      Makes me angry to this day!

    • @Sick_Boy.
      @Sick_Boy. 6 лет назад +214

      * Then remembers the Vatican Library has it’s secrets ,continues to get angry AF*

    • @Em_Rey
      @Em_Rey 6 лет назад +9

      Lmao so true

  • @rjweiss1
    @rjweiss1 5 лет назад +5170

    That would be like someone destroying the internet today

    • @log293
      @log293 5 лет назад +92

      @WWG1WGA! USA Heard of Wikipedia?

    • @log293
      @log293 5 лет назад +19

      @WWG1WGA! USA k

    • @darthjegg6570
      @darthjegg6570 5 лет назад +248

      @WWG1WGA! USA >go to a library instead of google for information in 2019
      lmao

    • @rjweiss1
      @rjweiss1 5 лет назад +455

      WWG1WGA! USA the internet contains basically the entirety of information of mankind. If you get lost in bullshit and chick bait then you’re in the wrong place. You can learn and teach yourself almost anything if you know how to find the information. Don’t be a hater

    • @josejayant3127
      @josejayant3127 5 лет назад +49

      WWG1WGA! USA go to library for free tutorial videos if you can find any.

  • @joeschmo8755
    @joeschmo8755 3 года назад +500

    In school we had to make a project on a historical disaster and I chose the burning of the library of Alexandria. People were so interested, we talked about it for an entire week cause nobody was taught it in class.

    • @northernhemisphere4906
      @northernhemisphere4906 3 года назад +11

      nice mate.what a nice school too it seems.certainly time joyfully spent.

    • @abhishekrao1710
      @abhishekrao1710 3 года назад +41

      Library of Nalanda in India(Bharat) had 9 million manuscripts. It burned for 3 months. Now with your knowledge comprehend how many years back was humanity set back. It was burned by an Islamic invader named Bakhtiyar Khilji because the natives of land healed his wounds. Enraged by the knowledge we possessed he sent his army 1000 miles east just to burn the library.

    • @deansmith4752
      @deansmith4752 2 года назад +7

      @@abhishekrao1710 there are crimes against humanity which know no bounds. This is not just a holocaust of people but the destruction of the potential that generations that were lost.

    • @cagnazzo82
      @cagnazzo82 2 года назад +8

      @@abhishekrao1710 Now that was a truly evil man.

    • @kwisatzhaderach472
      @kwisatzhaderach472 2 года назад +2

      @@abhishekrao1710 I'm sure that wasn't the reason. Why would the reasoning of the people involved be so childish?
      You really believe Caesar burned the library without first cleaning it out? Tell me would you do that if you were in his place and then tell me do you think Caesar was stupid? The people you conqueror, you take their knowledge away. Make it seem lost, and then you use it to stay in power. None of these historical characters were stupid and these transmissions make them seem so very one-dimensional.

  • @EastMontana1
    @EastMontana1 5 лет назад +1121

    In that library They had all the old knowledge of the old civilizations.
    Lost forever.

    • @tgreaux5027
      @tgreaux5027 5 лет назад +17

      Citation needed*

    • @lamborgini86
      @lamborgini86 5 лет назад +182

      Are you fucking kidding me .
      . They probably knew how they built the pyramids

    • @DeeJaysterity
      @DeeJaysterity 5 лет назад +27

      @@lamborgini86 holy shit youre right

    • @hornybastard3034
      @hornybastard3034 5 лет назад +46

      @@GnosticTheist they documented alot of things back then

    • @namedyukinne4398
      @namedyukinne4398 5 лет назад +6

      Julius Caesar: your welcome

  • @throttle1000
    @throttle1000 7 лет назад +1044

    It's clear from the comment section humanity was indeed set back a thousand years.

    • @tinotendadavidzinyama588
      @tinotendadavidzinyama588 7 лет назад +38

      lmao, take this W

    • @enescakr4203
      @enescakr4203 7 лет назад +14

      Alucard yeah your comment on a fucking video takes us further right?!

    • @jcoope77
      @jcoope77 7 лет назад +13

      Mari Kurihara liberalism is a disease

    • @CoffeeSuccubus
      @CoffeeSuccubus 7 лет назад +5

      Alucard nah by six thousand. Look at many youtube comments

    • @engincallahan2943
      @engincallahan2943 7 лет назад +9

      Alucard and another 1000years in the last decade, thx to TV that is full of useful information..

  • @trollverse171
    @trollverse171 5 лет назад +1535

    Makes me wonder how the world would be if the library was around now

    • @juanmanuelpenaloza9264
      @juanmanuelpenaloza9264 5 лет назад +290

      Hoverboards, the cure for cancer and colonies on Mars.

    • @bioshock5620
      @bioshock5620 5 лет назад +44

      Juan Manuel Penaloza chill lol

    • @juanmanuelpenaloza9264
      @juanmanuelpenaloza9264 5 лет назад +78

      @@bioshock5620 It's the truth, ain't it?

    • @a2k610
      @a2k610 5 лет назад +95

      I mean if it set back the human civilization a 1000 years, we’ll never know.

    • @weaboo101
      @weaboo101 5 лет назад +27

      Juan Manuel Penaloza prolly some lost or hidden civilizations yoo

  • @s4m1r_65
    @s4m1r_65 3 года назад +262

    This was probably one of the greatest catastrophies of history. Imagine the amount of things we would have access today from the ancient world of that hadn't happened.

    • @rickb06
      @rickb06 2 года назад

      @mario kong you do realize that the crusades were in direct response to Muslim invaders who murdered, raped and conquered much of modern Europe? The crusades were a defensive act, nothing more. Your historical knowledge is worthless. Biased and incomplete, suited to and by your political beliefs.

    • @aprilmariemashburn1
      @aprilmariemashburn1 2 года назад +6

      Probably nothing more than we already know bc they wouldn't have told us anything anyway.

    • @chopsyoutube
      @chopsyoutube 2 года назад

      @@aprilmariemashburn1 how do you know that?

    • @milky8471
      @milky8471 2 года назад +1

      ​@@aprilmariemashburn1 How do you know that ?

    • @Kopie0830
      @Kopie0830 Год назад

      Library was burnt multiple times. First by Julius Caesar, next by the jews, lastly by Caliph Umar. I think it's still a blessing in disguise. Imagine ww1 and 2 in 300 ad, ww2 in 350 ad and ww3 in 400 ad. The more knowledge man has, be more warfare becomes more advanced. Warfare is part of human society.

  • @jordanleighwheatley
    @jordanleighwheatley 5 лет назад +331

    Ancient Egypt is by far one of my biggest obsessions. I would love to be able to reverse the clock and see this library.

    • @70jcarbon
      @70jcarbon 5 лет назад +42

      Jordan Leigh Wheatley Bruh just change the time settings on your phone

    • @JustReckles5
      @JustReckles5 5 лет назад +2

      And the ancient Americas

    • @anon-iraq2655
      @anon-iraq2655 5 лет назад +4

      Think this dorsnt count as ancient rgypt, rather mediaeval egypt

    • @Sera-Marie
      @Sera-Marie 5 лет назад +9

      Egypt in general ..... They achieved such amazing things.... Then ... Christianity comes along and some people think they have more rights than others and boom 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @pride7416
      @pride7416 5 лет назад +5

      @@Sera-Marie just so you know the egyptian pyramids are older than the civilization itself, so its theorized an advanced civilization built it before them, got wiped out, and thousands of years later was rediscovered by egyptians which is why they use them as tombstones- because they didn't know what the true purpose of the pyramids were for

  • @theexpoexplorer8033
    @theexpoexplorer8033 5 лет назад +2436

    No wonder Julius got stabbed. Hell I would too

    • @Loonaurtheworld
      @Loonaurtheworld 5 лет назад +101

      If you already have a time machine hmu so we can stab him 28 times or more before he burn down the library

    • @babyottootto1394
      @babyottootto1394 5 лет назад +1

      Hunter West you would prob due too tho so do what you want

    • @babyottootto1394
      @babyottootto1394 5 лет назад +4

      My knowledge from spaceship earth in Disney world I have learned that they had backups in the middle east

    • @bar5167
      @bar5167 5 лет назад

      Never forget im the fastest man alive

    • @connorross4571
      @connorross4571 5 лет назад +2

      On that we agree.

  • @exomilav
    @exomilav 5 лет назад +1933

    * having a great time *
    * find this video *
    * find out the library of alexandria was burned setting civilization back 1,000 years *
    * realize our 2015 couldve been like back to the future II's 2015 *
    * get sad *

    • @thorsten8790
      @thorsten8790 5 лет назад +9

      Considering all the problems that are currently happening because of technology like being able to perfectly fake facial emotions and voices, high technology weaponry, AI etc. I'm quite glad actually

    • @ct7853
      @ct7853 5 лет назад

      Exomilav I don’t know whether to laugh or...I see ur point though

    • @thorsten8790
      @thorsten8790 5 лет назад +10

      You're naive for believing that techonology will not backlash on the human race.
      I guarantee you the cause for human extinction will involve some scientific innovation.

    • @Gorg-oe1hu
      @Gorg-oe1hu 5 лет назад +3

      * steals comment *

    • @lawliet99968
      @lawliet99968 5 лет назад +1

      @@lordrhino1234 this guy gets it lol, if now the library was not burned, you might not have been born at all.

  • @SuccuBustazz
    @SuccuBustazz 4 года назад +50

    Well this just teaches you how important it is to make backups

  • @PKMNRangerDenton
    @PKMNRangerDenton 5 лет назад +1780

    Library of Alexandria: *exists*
    Julius Ceasar: I'm about to ruin this man's career

    • @airmarshal
      @airmarshal 5 лет назад +56

      Julius Cesar: you niggas in trouble

    • @xanny650
      @xanny650 5 лет назад +60

      I'ma fix it for you
      Library of Alexandria: * exist *
      Julius Caesar: I'm about to end this mans whole career

    • @connorross4571
      @connorross4571 5 лет назад +1

      100th like!

    • @truthoftheuniverse4179
      @truthoftheuniverse4179 5 лет назад +12

      THAT TO THIS ASSHOLE WE LOSE SO MUCH OF ANCIENT ALIEN TECHNOLOGY

    • @cf8415
      @cf8415 5 лет назад +1

      Truly, a fellow intellectual.

  • @Niom_Music
    @Niom_Music 5 лет назад +1563

    Fire, man’s greatest discovery. Also, man’s greatest weapon.

    • @jacksonh7009
      @jacksonh7009 5 лет назад +67

      @roninn we wouldn't have developed bombs without first discovering fire

    • @hamburger4626
      @hamburger4626 5 лет назад +2

      Niom shut the fuck up

    • @Danymok
      @Danymok 5 лет назад +11

      You know what's more dangerous than fire?
      Atoms.

    • @Danymok
      @Danymok 5 лет назад +1

      @@DarthBloth lol thx

    • @lamborgini86
      @lamborgini86 5 лет назад +3

      Fire is untouchable tbh , its literally what gives us life (sun) , we also need our moon dont forget.

  • @CatFishKick
    @CatFishKick 5 лет назад +2993

    Petition to force the Vatican to open its vaults to the world

    • @Passions5555
      @Passions5555 5 лет назад +171

      That ain't happening 😒

    • @metamorph5286
      @metamorph5286 5 лет назад +78

      The world is not too ready yet, unfortunayely. I mean look at the wars around - but imagine having even more powerful weapons. Idk, maybe it's better to make step by step progress now, though I'd be totally for sharing the knowledge that may be hidden.

    • @thorsten8790
      @thorsten8790 5 лет назад +227

      @@metamorph5286 War won't Change much. Nukes are already damn powerful the vatican won't give us the knowledge to destroy planetary bodies lol

    • @atpacific
      @atpacific 5 лет назад +65

      They are hiding many things that they don't want us to know

    • @withlove2963
      @withlove2963 5 лет назад +322

      I think they're fake, and it's just a sex dungeon

  • @matthewmoskowitz468
    @matthewmoskowitz468 4 года назад +50

    “First casualty of war is truth” ~ look it up

  • @latestsports-viralsportscl3971
    @latestsports-viralsportscl3971 6 лет назад +1052

    The mathematical ability of people thousands of years ago was so advanced that they could build the pyramids, knew the radius of the Earth and even the distance to nearby planets. Just a few hundred years ago people thought the Earth was flat, and some still do. That's how advanced they were. And most people don't even know it.

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 6 лет назад +151

      Ok, I have to correct you on one thing, people have known that the Earth was a sphere for thousands of years. It’s a myth that people back in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat. That being said, you are correct, there are still flat earth idiots.

    • @kaizenanalyst4833
      @kaizenanalyst4833 6 лет назад +6

      Lol! "Idiots". Ok, ignore the absence of curvature. I suppose you think your great granddaddy was an ape and that his was an amoeba. Whatever! Name-calling can't change reality. To be honest, it won't even matter when Yahweh Sabaoth (Lord of Hosts) remakes heaven and earth. It'll be a new flat earth anyway. So, enjoy your name-calling for this short time you have to do it.

    • @DarkenedHalo115
      @DarkenedHalo115 6 лет назад +16

      Kaizen Analyst oof

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 6 лет назад +7

      that was way before this. we did not have the ability to build the pyramids during the timeframe of the existence of library of Alexandria.

    • @Nothing_serious
      @Nothing_serious 6 лет назад +2

      howard baxter Most people do believe that the Earth was flat back then. Yes, there are some that doesn't believe it's flat but most do believe.

  • @drewchase6577
    @drewchase6577 5 лет назад +774

    One of the worst crimes against humanity.

    • @hamburger4626
      @hamburger4626 5 лет назад +48

      Is farting in a elevator

    • @alupadynasty2203
      @alupadynasty2203 5 лет назад +3

      And what about nalanda University , taxila, vikramshila universities destruction?
      More than 3 lakh books were burnt during this attack

    • @bleachesbrother6697
      @bleachesbrother6697 5 лет назад +1

      @@audi7285 ????????????????????????????

    • @romanplays1
      @romanplays1 5 лет назад

      @@audi7285 stfu nazi in disguise

    • @pandesal6607
      @pandesal6607 5 лет назад

      fortnite

  • @damidevil5257
    @damidevil5257 5 лет назад +602

    Whenever anyone asks me what I’d do if I had a time machine I always say it would be to save the library of Alexandria lol

    • @obiwankenobi9689
      @obiwankenobi9689 5 лет назад +24

      Just Miles but paradoxes, and timey-wimey problems, and stuff

    • @midnightkath
      @midnightkath 5 лет назад +28

      Small or big changes from the past will always affect the future drastically. People from today will never be born.

    • @stronghandstroker9723
      @stronghandstroker9723 5 лет назад +18

      @@midnightkath The second you save the Library wouldn't you also disappear and never be born? And if you were never born how would of save the library in the first place?

    • @alexteofilo7761
      @alexteofilo7761 5 лет назад

      @@stronghandstroker9723 I agree, maybe it was a good thing it happened??? Idk

    • @tomhohl4373
      @tomhohl4373 5 лет назад +10

      Just Miles, Don't bother. Been there. done that. English hadn't been invented yet. Couldn't read a word of it.

  • @zigzag1able
    @zigzag1able 4 года назад +44

    I like stuff like this, just imagine the endless discoveries, inventions, and technicalities of life we would be able to overcome if The Library Of Alexandria still stood today.

    • @lettuceman9439
      @lettuceman9439 2 года назад

      Lol no
      The library was more or less obselete by the time ceasar ever set foot on alexandria, The library was nothing more than just a propaganda machine by the time of cleopatra exalting the Greek Kings of Egypts and turning away the scholars who made the library important in any academic sense immigrating to rome and further down to ethiopia.

    • @qjtvaddict
      @qjtvaddict 10 месяцев назад

      We would be arguing with aliens

  • @mrlazzo3354
    @mrlazzo3354 5 лет назад +406

    The burning of the ancient library of Babylon and the Book Burning done by the Anceint Chinese when the Qin conquered China (and built the Great Wall of China) was Equally as bad too

    • @baconbitz7804
      @baconbitz7804 5 лет назад +4

      Mr Crazy the wall was good we’d be more than a 1000 behind if the Mongolians got into china

    • @JSo-ns2xw
      @JSo-ns2xw 5 лет назад +23

      @@baconbitz7804 They did get into China. See the Yuan Dynasty.

    • @jijdom
      @jijdom 5 лет назад +11

      No it was the mongols, who today call themselves Turks, who did that.

    • @jochi7585
      @jochi7585 5 лет назад +5

      Mr Crazy also, not quite as bad, but the burning of arts by the nazis in the 1940s

    • @arminahnoud9068
      @arminahnoud9068 5 лет назад

      And the Mongols

  • @johnfranciskennedysongwrit2639
    @johnfranciskennedysongwrit2639 7 лет назад +1122

    dont put all your books in one basket.. err sorry , one library

    • @johnfranciskennedysongwrit2639
      @johnfranciskennedysongwrit2639 7 лет назад +16

      joshua fallis I' m pretty sure there was a book on that too, for the record it was a tragedy to lose those books

    • @199NickYT
      @199NickYT 7 лет назад +6

      John Francis Kennedy always make backups.

    • @bensmith2466
      @bensmith2466 7 лет назад +9

      Something just doesn't smell right about octavian ceaser at the time, a book worm, would let all that knowledge burn. He knew the value and rome prospered during his rule. Because of his vast knowledge of the greeks etc.

    • @greatgallade
      @greatgallade 7 лет назад +3

      John Francis Kennedy they we're essentially a university. so yeah

    • @louismalinak5563
      @louismalinak5563 7 лет назад +2

      Ben Smith History was written and re-written by the victors

  • @codrindanculea8621
    @codrindanculea8621 5 лет назад +1269

    Egiptians: we will have flying cars in the future
    Romans: I don't think I will

    • @N8IsCool
      @N8IsCool 5 лет назад +55

      Egiptians

    • @lewistaylor2858
      @lewistaylor2858 5 лет назад +31

      they were Greeks, Alexandria was a Greek city

    • @SK-hd1yk
      @SK-hd1yk 5 лет назад +8

      Toxic Killer maybe it was in Egypt but it’s not a myth that Romans as well as other countries invaded, traded with and lived in Egypt and had influence on it.

    • @placeholder8768
      @placeholder8768 5 лет назад +18

      Toxic Killer Alexander the Great was Greek.
      He conquered it and hellenized it- Greece from 300 BC to Cleopatra under the Ptolemaic dynasty had massive traits of Hellenism, unlike the ancient Egypt we all know of.
      In fact, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Ptolemy, was one of the most influential generals under Alexander the Great, and was from Macedonia.

    • @placeholder8768
      @placeholder8768 5 лет назад +7

      Toxic Killer
      Macedonia (today) is a region in Greece. Google it, it’s near Thrace- the country known as Macedonia today is more Bulgarian and Serbian, which is why they changed their name to ‘North Macedonia’.
      He admired the Greek culture because he was Greek (although he admired Persian culture a lot too) - and even if he wasn’t Greek in another alternate world, he still hellenized the empire, and his general who became first king of hellenized Egypt was still Greek.

  • @vaggs75
    @vaggs75 3 года назад +17

    I remember studying math, and reading that Eratosthenes had measured the circumference of the Earth on a random page. Note how they didn't have rulers or pencils back then. I have no idea how he did it. It should have been the main course of geometry, instead of a side note on the book. Geometry means, measuring land. Geo comes from Gea which means land, but also Earth. He took the name quite literally and measured how big the earth was. Could you imagine? He discovered that the "known lands" were probably only 1% of all the Earths surface.

  • @Marta1Buck
    @Marta1Buck 6 лет назад +2512

    I don't know why almost every conqueror always wipes ancient knowledge. Ancient documents, weaponry, blacksmithing, etc.

    • @rubenscott3972
      @rubenscott3972 6 лет назад +446

      vawa-ID everyone want to write there history make a god of the selfs

    • @RedFormanOG
      @RedFormanOG 6 лет назад +309

      Control

    • @cassif19
      @cassif19 6 лет назад +233

      The romans were actually known for not doing that. That's why I'm sceptical about Julius Caesar being the culpit here

    • @edenhazard7597
      @edenhazard7597 6 лет назад +16

      Alexander the great was have said to received a vision/dream that told him to destroy it

    • @donovanlight6278
      @donovanlight6278 6 лет назад +57

      Eden Hazard alexander the great was dead for hundreds of years before the library of Alexandria was destroyed. Hence the city being named after him dipshit

  • @bornvillain6819
    @bornvillain6819 6 лет назад +563

    Legend has it the only thing that survived the fire was colonel Sanders secret recipe.

    • @agustingarcia9563
      @agustingarcia9563 6 лет назад +56

      Born Villain don’t forget about the krabby patty formula

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 6 лет назад +9

      Born Villain too soon

    • @NOfearNOinfinity
      @NOfearNOinfinity 6 лет назад +2

      And all the other junk was fed into education curriculum no doubt

    • @BASSQUATCH001
      @BASSQUATCH001 6 лет назад +17

      And a Nokia 3310.

    • @ghostbl33d65
      @ghostbl33d65 6 лет назад +3

      I mean it is said the "knowledge of the soul" was contained within that library so its undoubtable.

  • @Geekritique
    @Geekritique 7 лет назад +2564

    The Library of Alexandria was to the Greeks, what the Internet is to the world today. Imagine if Google broke tomorrow.

    • @pangtsr
      @pangtsr 7 лет назад +211

      Bruce FUCKIN vane! Egypt was part of Greece at the time. Alexander's empire was at its last day's, as the Roman Empire grew in strength and size. Egypt and Lebanon were not populated by black people at the time.

    • @nicksmith6629
      @nicksmith6629 7 лет назад +2

      Genius comment... lol

    • @unrewritable
      @unrewritable 7 лет назад +34

      We will move to bing lol

    • @test-mm7bv
      @test-mm7bv 7 лет назад +7

      well, minus spam and cancer.

    • @davidgreen5099
      @davidgreen5099 7 лет назад +100

      Geekritique I would argue your assumption, since Alexandria was not used primarily for porn and swearing at each other.

  • @Greendover1
    @Greendover1 Год назад +3

    Hey Jimmy, I’m a “New Fan” Less than a month. I’m from Massachusetts. I ran into you by accident by watching Joe Rogan, and man I gotta say speaking from a “nobody” point of view I gotta say I’m speechless.. I’ve been for the last few years exploring the knowledge “accessible” to me. And through RUclips algorithms finally stumbled upon your presence. I’ve been watching your channel for the last month and can’t come to terms on how this information isn’t easily available. For instance your recent videos on a long forgotten history on pyramids, just makes me wakes me up. Makes me think more clearly on the fact that we might just not be carbon dating as accurate as we believe we are. So again Thank you and keep up the great work.
    -Leo of Puerto Rico

  • @CEOofSleep
    @CEOofSleep 5 лет назад +1207

    Library of Alexandria: *How to Do Surgery On a Grape*
    Julius: 🔥 🔥

    • @braydonsullivan2092
      @braydonsullivan2092 5 лет назад +6

      Genghis Khunt hahahahahahahaha this is great

    • @ryguy4825
      @ryguy4825 5 лет назад +13

      Library of alexandria lost anthem recovered:
      Hit or Miss
      I guess they never miss huh?

    • @collinsashley1990
      @collinsashley1990 5 лет назад +3

      I laughed way too hard

    • @TerrorOmnibus
      @TerrorOmnibus 5 лет назад +1

      Well, that explains a lot

    • @EllyThePoet
      @EllyThePoet 5 лет назад

      😂

  • @Jhayzer021
    @Jhayzer021 5 лет назад +365

    I'm pretty sure some of the files from the City of Atlantis are stored there.

    • @needs716
      @needs716 5 лет назад +39

      Jay-r Castillo *were

    • @santicheeks1106
      @santicheeks1106 5 лет назад +14

      Jay-r Castillo *were

    • @infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295
      @infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295 5 лет назад +43

      I think proof of Atlantis is still stored in the Vatican archives

    • @santicheeks1106
      @santicheeks1106 5 лет назад +3

      @@infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295 I hope

    • @punkhazard1531
      @punkhazard1531 5 лет назад +18

      and many uknown great civilizations all over the planet that we 'll sadly never know existed

  • @amenohaengdongiji7243
    @amenohaengdongiji7243 5 лет назад +474

    we could have been living with cyborgs....
    *ANGRY AF*

    • @kyledailey
      @kyledailey 5 лет назад +7

      *We all would be free willing cyborgs. That's if there really was free will.*

    • @toodlesyes9687
      @toodlesyes9687 5 лет назад +3

      *eldritch screaming*

    • @kieferbradley2860
      @kieferbradley2860 5 лет назад

      Probably true

    • @Lunk42
      @Lunk42 5 лет назад +1

      I could have a robo-dick right now smh I'm so upset.

    • @reddd-77
      @reddd-77 5 лет назад

      Kyle Dailey determinist?

  • @goatcheese2174
    @goatcheese2174 2 года назад +38

    I saw a video a while back saying that when Caesar invaded Alexandria, he didn’t bring a lot of ships and saw the Egyptian army was docked in port with many many more ships than he had. So he burned all their ships down and in doing so the fire spread to the library. He didn’t intend to burn it down, and was actually remorseful about it because he was a lover of literature and history. I think that fire burnt something like 40% of the library. I know other people also invaded and torched the library but I can’t remember the details.

    • @SuperYtc1
      @SuperYtc1 2 года назад +15

      Only 48 BC kids would understand.

    • @tonedumbharry
      @tonedumbharry Год назад +2

      Also, the loss of the library wasn't as catastrophic as claimed. The information contained was not as unique as Jimmy makes out. It was not the only library of its kind. It wasn't even the biggest.

    • @goatcheese2174
      @goatcheese2174 Год назад +3

      @@tonedumbharry source?

    • @gfk6560
      @gfk6560 Год назад

      @@tonedumbharry no source? Typical

  • @caseyjordan5433
    @caseyjordan5433 6 лет назад +703

    I still get mad when i think about it...

    • @TheRainblossoms
      @TheRainblossoms 6 лет назад +27

      Rome converted to Christianity around 200 years after the library was burnt. So it was the fucking Romans. They fucked up a lot of people's shit back in the day.

    • @coreycox2345
      @coreycox2345 6 лет назад +3

      Stupid thing to do. I wonder if there are modern equivalents? Are there digital copies of our cultural artifacts all over the place? What kind of things? Even ordinary things?

    • @9manishchahar
      @9manishchahar 6 лет назад +12

      Ryan Jordan In india also Nalanda University was destroyed by Bhaktiyar khilji (Turkish Muslim Invader) in 1193 AD. The library there contained 9 million manuscript and he burned them all.

  • @333ryansmith
    @333ryansmith 7 лет назад +2489

    i was never taught this in school

    • @DrewBarnett144
      @DrewBarnett144 7 лет назад +407

      Crydal Sorry man. But have you looked at the school system? It's obviously and admittedly not there for you to learn and think critically. You go there to memorize and regurgitate all that they tell you is truth. There is literally no room for question. If you do then you are wrong.
      This sort of model leads to a society like ours that doesn't question anything and accepts everything without rhyme or reason.

    • @poisonsquid37
      @poisonsquid37 7 лет назад +35

      You have owners and they also own the schools

    • @oscarcastanedamunoz
      @oscarcastanedamunoz 7 лет назад +25

      Ryan Smith the internet is one big library

    • @starwarsroo2448
      @starwarsroo2448 7 лет назад +5

      ocast evo or liebrary

    • @pangtsr
      @pangtsr 7 лет назад +23

      Ryan Smith well, that's because you don't get to learn much at school. At least not in most countries. In Greek schools we get all that information. But I guess that's probably because it was put there by the Greeks in the first place...

  • @wdtripps6537
    @wdtripps6537 5 лет назад +332

    Yes public school limits talk of this library to a brief few sentences. This was the one event that cost humanity an insurmountable amount of knowledge.

    • @betsybarnicle8016
      @betsybarnicle8016 4 года назад +1

      Now they're teaching that it was never burned. See what google puts on page one of an inet search "Alexandria library burned".

    • @practicalintuition4030
      @practicalintuition4030 4 года назад

      Can you do the world a favor and stop talking out loud? thanks.

    • @betsybarnicle8016
      @betsybarnicle8016 4 года назад +11

      @@practicalintuition4030 Snarky. What a great quality in a world of depth and beauty. Do you have any content?

    • @brodykuemin9331
      @brodykuemin9331 3 года назад +1

      @@practicalintuition4030 bro what ?

    • @blacklite911
      @blacklite911 3 года назад +1

      @@betsybarnicle8016 I did that and Google said it was burned by Julius Caesar…. There’s debate about how much was lost and how much it set us back though but that’s on qhora.

  • @peterpocock9062
    @peterpocock9062 3 года назад +13

    The more we learn from history (on a open honest, unbiased basis) the greater our chance of being truly great in the future!

  • @waqs8708
    @waqs8708 5 лет назад +439

    Why didnt they just upload the data to a USB

    • @Rmora1408
      @Rmora1408 5 лет назад +99

      FBI Nigga you want a scholarship

    • @isthisnametaken978
      @isthisnametaken978 5 лет назад +63

      Nah, they should have uploaded it to cloud backup.

    • @ghostlycloudss
      @ghostlycloudss 5 лет назад +67

      Or at least take some screenshots smh

    • @LocalGoatStatus
      @LocalGoatStatus 5 лет назад +16

      For real. Would think these mf's would put that shit on the cloud, or printed copies. Stoopid af

    • @jimmyhvy2277
      @jimmyhvy2277 5 лет назад

      Yup , ive done the same thing , see smoke . Say , Damn wish i backed that work up :(

  • @Mccmmmccmm
    @Mccmmmccmm 6 лет назад +944

    duuuuude i have literally never heard of the library or alexandria and i just graduated highschool. what they teach is BS

    • @guillermovazquez1084
      @guillermovazquez1084 6 лет назад +58

      Cletus Mcgillicudy yeah and they don't talk about how most high ranking Nazis fled to South America an lived the rest of there evil lives doing evil rasict shit

    • @sheba389
      @sheba389 6 лет назад +6

      Its alright. I never heard of the library of Alexandria in school. I heard it on a show and researched it myself.

    • @guts4brekfest
      @guts4brekfest 6 лет назад +42

      At least you can find the x on a triangle right? (Sarcasm)

    • @sheba389
      @sheba389 6 лет назад +19

      Google was (and still is) my best friend lol I learn so much more that way.

    • @Mushohsum
      @Mushohsum 6 лет назад +54

      Cletus Mcgillicudy your knowledge shouldn’t depend on what other people feed you. You should venture out yourself to expand your knowledge

  • @Jasongy827
    @Jasongy827 7 лет назад +79

    Crazy, these Greek philosophers, scientist, and mathematician are like real raw thinkers.

    • @ODER66MIKE
      @ODER66MIKE 7 лет назад +3

      Armani Nguon because they didnt really get distracted by all this bullshit we have today. like im sure kids were alot smarter back in these ancient times than jow since they didnt have phones or video games to distract them

    • @sar2794
      @sar2794 7 лет назад

      Amazing Swami is that why most of the population couldn't read

    • @tacosmexicanstyle7846
      @tacosmexicanstyle7846 7 лет назад

      Armani Nguon
      Too bad the modern Greeks use the same national identity as they did

    • @matsbjur2535
      @matsbjur2535 2 года назад

      yes, they stood for the first wave of enlightenment. Then Christianity barbarized the continent for 1600 years, slaughtering people until they no longer would have it and we had the second enlightenment.

  • @christinaparris3426
    @christinaparris3426 Год назад +4

    I’ll say I was fortunate enough to have a teacher that was very passionate about history, he took a whole lesson to teach about the library of Alexandria, if there’s one event in history I’d chose to change it would be this.

  • @JD-po3yl
    @JD-po3yl 5 лет назад +1015

    Just play Assassins Creed Origins, go to the library and read the books duh

    • @jochi7585
      @jochi7585 5 лет назад +7

      JD wrong city

    • @jacobbergau6009
      @jacobbergau6009 5 лет назад +25

      @@jochi7585 uhhh no?

    • @JahBreed
      @JahBreed 4 года назад +9

      They're all idiots. Its not they're fault.

    • @AGON17
      @AGON17 4 года назад +8

      Jah Breed their*

    • @JahBreed
      @JahBreed 4 года назад +13

      @@AGON17 I'm a mess. Been a mess for a few months.😭I spelled 'Shrewd', 'Shrude' at one point! Who the fxxk mispells 'Shrewd'!?😭Gawdammit! I'm falling apart😭

  • @forty7152
    @forty7152 5 лет назад +344

    It was the Fire Nation. They did it. They burned the great Library.

    • @attonapz6081
      @attonapz6081 4 года назад +11

      dammit, azula. if you could only control that temper, youd be so hot! like tai lee

    • @gregorybyrne2453
      @gregorybyrne2453 3 года назад +2

      Check the basement of the vatican or buckingham palace.
      The Climate Cycles of our water 💦 planet are continental glaciers with lower sea levels brought on by Global tsunami's at the vernal equinoxes.

    • @edsfountain
      @edsfountain 3 года назад +1

      Lol...Cleopatra witnessed it , and we have proof, you weirdo

    • @remix4098
      @remix4098 2 года назад

      Lol

  • @nicolegagnon4642
    @nicolegagnon4642 6 лет назад +155

    I agree, I always thought that the loss of this library was the worst thing that happened to humanity. I can't imagine all the knowledge we lost due to the burning.

    • @maliceburgoyne495
      @maliceburgoyne495 6 лет назад

      Why should anyone give a crap? It just slowed down science from destroying the world. What Caesar did was one of the greatest gifts to humanity.

    • @nicolegagnon4642
      @nicolegagnon4642 6 лет назад +25

      Hshsbs Iamgod I'm a truth seeker, no matter where that truth leads me. I value knowledge and our history. I wanna know our TRUE origins

    • @maliceburgoyne495
      @maliceburgoyne495 6 лет назад +4

      "Truth". LOL. "No matter where that truth leads me." You sound good and ready to get pied piped foolishly believing that such nonsense exists. Leave the "truth seeking" to the religious nuts.

    • @maliceburgoyne495
      @maliceburgoyne495 6 лет назад +4

      Pushed back 500 years from what? From what exactly? That's foolish logic with a gross leap of faith with more assumptions than D.B Cooper's identity.

    • @johncreator346
      @johncreator346 6 лет назад +7

      Malice Burgoyne From the better good life we could had today.
      Barbarian!!!
      People like you are blindfolded and live in darkness.
      People like me seek the light 💡 and desire to benefit all mankind.

  • @ucid5363
    @ucid5363 4 года назад +5

    the people who were involved in running the collection of information for the library are the real heros in this world

  • @gabrieldominguez2647
    @gabrieldominguez2647 6 лет назад +666

    1 minute into the video and I'm mad already, so much knowledge lost.

    • @abdelrahmanelsaadany1192
      @abdelrahmanelsaadany1192 6 лет назад +2

      Well you cant imagine how huge the library was its hard to hide even 25% of what was in that library without being seen or discovered unless you bury them tens of meters below the ground

    • @Ericwkgnil
      @Ericwkgnil 6 лет назад +2

      More information has surfaced about ancient documents and it's said to be in the Vatican's vaults deep inside. They always keep the secrets from the public view and fully knowing it can be one day used against them.

    • @jimmyparris9892
      @jimmyparris9892 6 лет назад

      Eric Mendoza or burned to the ground.

    • @Ericwkgnil
      @Ericwkgnil 6 лет назад

      @@jimmyparris9892 not the smartest thing to do and if you believe main stream than you are being told lies.

    • @kevin-hk6yl
      @kevin-hk6yl 6 лет назад

      Theyre so much knowledge to gain..

  • @p0llenp0ny
    @p0llenp0ny 5 лет назад +163

    4:31 "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line." Boy, this Archimedes dude was sharp as a tack.

    • @defi6.058
      @defi6.058 4 года назад +18

      @MIHAI S. the shortest distance between two points is to bend time and space itself😶

    • @hereticsign
      @hereticsign 4 года назад +27

      @@defi6.058 I hope u geniuses realize that u guys are still talking about straight line.

    • @aepfelchen1181
      @aepfelchen1181 4 года назад

      Had to laugh, too lol

    • @chris8878
      @chris8878 3 года назад

      These ancient libraries get waaaay overblown importance, people act like Egyptians and their writings are like extraterrestrial or pseudo-divine or something. There was most likely a LOT of pagan bullcrap, workings of alchemists (scientists) and political records etc. I love history but some people venerate a time when the most brutal behaviors existed (total conquest, mass rape, slave labor, slave soldiers, child sacrifice/ pagans, illiteracy the norm, etc.)

    • @soulkitchen1979
      @soulkitchen1979 3 года назад +2

      Seems pretty simple once someone does all the work for you.

  • @ice1602
    @ice1602 5 лет назад +682

    That’s why you don’t ever keep all your data in one place. Backup backup backup!!! :)

    • @wizeguy6484
      @wizeguy6484 5 лет назад +21

      Maybe they did 🤔🤔

    • @wizeguy6484
      @wizeguy6484 5 лет назад +1

      Lol too late now I guess

    • @ivanbregar1646
      @ivanbregar1646 5 лет назад +16

      You have to save befoure you exit the game.

    • @MrYitzhak
      @MrYitzhak 5 лет назад +4

      They did try, to move it and rebuild but it kept hunted down, imagine it today all of our backups are online, what if today the internet will fall forever most backups are useless, most.

    • @surajpatil7242
      @surajpatil7242 5 лет назад +2

      @@ethereal6279, can an ordinary man like me go through Vatican books just for knowledge?

  • @jdbb3gotskills
    @jdbb3gotskills 2 года назад +61

    Learning about this as a teenager is didn’t think much of it. But as I’ve gotten older it pains me to know that so much knowledge was burnt away. The withdrawal of knowledge feels deliberate. It feels like some force out there is trying to keep us humans in the dark. And they are holding us back for as long as they can. I don’t know who would want to do this to us.

    • @SuperYtc1
      @SuperYtc1 2 года назад

      Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should assume it's done by a God. Don't jump to this answer every time there is missing information. It was just a part of history, we are not that important. And clearly humanity is making great advancements so your claim is just stupid.

    • @pyarkaaloo
      @pyarkaaloo 2 года назад +5

      It was deliberate, and devastating.

    • @deewesthill1213
      @deewesthill1213 2 года назад +3

      A Roman general and dictator and some vandals, and centuries later, vicious religious fanatics.

    • @jonathanbrooks917
      @jonathanbrooks917 Год назад +2

      A very dark force!

    • @Carlo-qj5jl
      @Carlo-qj5jl Год назад

      That would be the Demiurge

  • @jochi7585
    @jochi7585 5 лет назад +187

    Atlantis, pyramids, the minoans.... so much more ancient history, all lost to us

    • @bigsmoke2281
      @bigsmoke2281 5 лет назад +8

      Pyrimids still stand till today

    • @peterongan9655
      @peterongan9655 4 года назад

      @@johnperic6860 OP said that the "pyramids....ancient history, all lost to us". He's clearly wrong and wth are you defending him?

    • @backinblood3218
      @backinblood3218 4 года назад

      Fureori we do

    • @mrk.8448
      @mrk.8448 3 года назад +1

      Aaron Wells no we do not lol they’re just theories i mean come pyramids are older than jesus

    • @codeoptimizationware2803
      @codeoptimizationware2803 3 года назад +2

      @@backinblood3218 :
      It stands to reason that there was very likely much more information about the pyramids that we will never, ever know because it was destroyed when the Library at Alexandria was sacked more than 2000 years ago. No, we do not know everything there is to know about the still-existing pyramids, nor can we ever know, short of some future discovery unforeseen.
      Jo Chi's comment is not false. While (at least some of) the pyramids still stand, much ancient history about them is forever lost in antiquity.

  • @lucasdeabrielle7375
    @lucasdeabrielle7375 5 лет назад +189

    This is why aliens are more advance than us.
    *ANGRY ASF*

    • @doofart6736
      @doofart6736 5 лет назад +2

      Well if aliens were more advanced then us (assuming they exist) they probably would have found and made it to us by now

    • @turtletube1392
      @turtletube1392 5 лет назад +12

      @@doofart6736 nah, they dont want to

    • @mannyheffley420
      @mannyheffley420 5 лет назад

      The tsar is always right

    • @MrAbomosaa
      @MrAbomosaa 5 лет назад +2

      @@turtletube1392
      Why not? They could invade us or take our knoledge..

    • @SpideyVids
      @SpideyVids 4 года назад +4

      @@MrAbomosaa They have a prime directive of non-interference just like Star Trek... there are, of course, some hostile exceptions.

  • @Fnelrbnef
    @Fnelrbnef 6 лет назад +419

    I have a sneaky suspicion the same thing is gonna happen to the internet.

    • @BrightInsight
      @BrightInsight  6 лет назад +76

      I agree!

    • @lesbianduck7862
      @lesbianduck7862 6 лет назад +71

      I dunno I've seen enough Chris Chan sex tapes and My Little Pony porn to maybe think that wouldn't be such a bad thing

    • @sankofax8082
      @sankofax8082 6 лет назад +7

      nah. not when the blockchain technology got things on lock.... I have literally written blogs and posted it on the blockchain. they will last forever.

    • @Fnelrbnef
      @Fnelrbnef 6 лет назад

      SANKOFA X Blockchain?

    • @sankofax8082
      @sankofax8082 6 лет назад +14

      The blockchain technology By design, is a decentralized technology. ... A global network of computers uses blockchain technology to jointly manage the database that records transactions and information. cryptocurrencies like bitcoin uses it. it can also be used to store a vast array of data.... it is not owned by central system/database or domain, so it cannot be erased all over the vast and spreading network. I have a blog on a block-chain called steemit. my page is steemit.com/@abmakko .Although, I have stopped posting for a while because of some pending issues.

  • @Zarghaam12
    @Zarghaam12 3 года назад +6

    Many such tragic events have had a similar effect. The destruction of Babylon and its mathematical, astronomical and philosophical works had similar effects. About 2000 years later the Mongol destruction of libraries of Samarqand, Bukhara, Balkh, Nishapur, Isfahan and, above all, Baghdad - the city of many big libraries - also set back humanity.

  • @miraqum
    @miraqum 7 лет назад +399

    Would someone explain to me how it is that the Vatican library has been "left locked" like this with no access to the knowledge within it? I don't understand why there isn't unbelievable amounts of pressure from all over the world, scientists,officials,governments, PEOPLE, to gain access!!

    • @markroger93
      @markroger93 7 лет назад +40

      im sure someone has access. i believe there is alien writting in there saying how they used to help humanity

    • @Anonymous-ro5fv
      @Anonymous-ro5fv 7 лет назад +84

      Hmmm....Perhaps the small group of families that own the media, governments and corporations are intentionally avoiding that topic. Just like they avoid every other topic that isn't, either directly or in-directly, pushing their propaganda, hysteria and agenda. Just a thought.
      Peace, Love and Health to ALL!
      Kind Regards
      George

    • @michaelbooster2
      @michaelbooster2 7 лет назад +98

      it's to hide people from the truth, its always like that...

    • @vonilao2209
      @vonilao2209 7 лет назад +7

      who are u to command Vatican

    • @landonbrawe5380
      @landonbrawe5380 7 лет назад +113

      von ilao who is the Vatican to hide generations of history and knowledge?

  • @danielestefano6122
    @danielestefano6122 7 лет назад +191

    And the second largest destruction of human knowledge was the burning of Baghdad.

    • @Lennartnieuwland
      @Lennartnieuwland 7 лет назад

      Daniel Estefano why? did they have such libraries?

    • @Beyonder1987
      @Beyonder1987 7 лет назад +57

      Lennart Nieuwland Library Baghdad was the biggest library ever until to that point before it was destroyed by the.mongols

    • @Lennartnieuwland
      @Lennartnieuwland 7 лет назад +3

      Beyonder thanks, didn't know.

    • @magiv4205
      @magiv4205 7 лет назад +53

      +Beyonder Baghdad was also one of the most culturally and scientifically advances places back then, and most of that either went up in flames or got lost for hundreds of years.

    • @rollingthunder8630
      @rollingthunder8630 7 лет назад +21

      Lennart Nieuwland Baghdad had the House of Wisdom, the largest library in the world at that time. Mongols burned it to the ground.

  • @Flyingmushroomman
    @Flyingmushroomman 7 лет назад +364

    The video is good but the comment section is giving me 6 types of stage 3 cancer

    • @piehamcake1
      @piehamcake1 7 лет назад +1

      every comment section on every video gives me stage 5 cancer

    • @TheSatiricalGamer
      @TheSatiricalGamer 7 лет назад

      Marc Geolingo Well... the library would of had the cure for all of that. :P

  • @tudorjason
    @tudorjason 2 года назад +2

    Among any of the ancient cities, Alexandria has captured my imagination the most. Between the Lighthouse and the Library, between burnings and earthquakes, it's just so fascinating!

  • @DABMANISAWESOME
    @DABMANISAWESOME 5 лет назад +400

    Was there a giant owl spirit guarding the library?

  • @HepCatJack
    @HepCatJack 5 лет назад +161

    It's too bad that backups hadn't been invented yet... Ghengis Khan also destroyed a precious library in Iraq.

    • @blegh2780
      @blegh2780 5 лет назад

      I thought it was one of his descendants though

    • @rajc2257
      @rajc2257 5 лет назад +22

      Jacques Gauthier the house of Wisdom and it was hulagu Khan not Genghis

    • @tahabashir3779
      @tahabashir3779 5 лет назад +1

      It was hulagu khan.

    • @jijdom
      @jijdom 5 лет назад +6

      It wad the mongolians who today call themselves turks. They did invade the middle east and burned everything down including the famous library of baghdad full of books and knowledge.

    • @jijdom
      @jijdom 5 лет назад +4

      @bigkahunaburger yes. Turks are originally central/east asian people. Thats why turkish language for examle has absolutely no similarity with its neighbour countrys.

  • @Fractal-of-Venus
    @Fractal-of-Venus 5 лет назад +74

    They destroyed esoteric and scientific knowledge, like the Zohar, which was taken from the old testaments. Why? Because that knowledge was our power. It's still happening today.

    • @kokothegreat5583
      @kokothegreat5583 4 года назад +1

      So true!!!

    • @noelq5325
      @noelq5325 3 года назад +2

      I know something about the Zohar Modifier the ancient source for power like ether. It was there Lacan made contact with the wave existence the bodiless being from the higher dimensional space.

    • @curiousone4757
      @curiousone4757 3 года назад

      I'm developing my power

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA 3 года назад

      @@noelq5325 Zohar

  • @kevray
    @kevray Год назад +2

    I think the biggest loss with the burning wasn't necessarily unknown books of unimaginable knowledge or whatever. I think there was probably a lot of copies around and what has been lost in science can be found again. Losses in culture though will never be recovered. What romances, musics, poem and so on have been lost? We will never know. A huge part of our shared history and the culture of our ancestors was lost

  • @wales2k4747
    @wales2k4747 7 лет назад +79

    AlternateHistoryHub idea for an episode:
    "What If the Library of Alexandria was NEVER BURNED?"

    • @r011ing_thunder6
      @r011ing_thunder6 7 лет назад +8

      wales2k We'd be a thousand years ahead of ourselves. Next!

    • @mbaxter22
      @mbaxter22 7 лет назад +2

      wales2k I second that idea!

    • @joey882286
      @joey882286 7 лет назад +1

      wales2k . We will have real hoverboards by now. Not like the fake one with the two wheels. Pathetic!

    • @leightonki6726
      @leightonki6726 7 лет назад

      Religion would be world wide punished and thinking would be highly regarded. A center of moral peace and communication.

    • @rizingpho3nix
      @rizingpho3nix 7 лет назад +1

      wales2k Basically the Vatican stole everything and kept it for themselves.

  • @lyledeyounges1276
    @lyledeyounges1276 6 лет назад +107

    The Library was built during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, Alexander's general, and the city was founded by Alexander - so the library would have been around 250 years old. Most ancient sources, like Plutarch, claimed that the library was destroyed during the siege of Alexandria when Caesar had to burn his own fleet and the fire spread to the harbour, but that the damage was not beyond repair. It was of course a tragedy for the city, and the Hellenistic world in particular, but a lot of people seem to forget that the library of Alexandria was not the only library in the world (and a lot of temples, especially in Egypt, also functioned as libraries to a lesser extent), and do not take into account that a lot of the scrolls had been copied, as you mention. Undeniably some scrolls were lost forever, but the events of 48-47 BC did not set civilisation back a 1000 years - but I get that nothing depicts "end of civilisation" like a library on fire.

    • @micheletravis9057
      @micheletravis9057 6 лет назад +2

      That is so sad, I feel like crying. So much was lost.

    • @nincsjonev
      @nincsjonev 6 лет назад +7

      Not to mention the library was operating until the 7th century.

    • @JaeElle
      @JaeElle 6 лет назад +2

      I agree that the knowledge was copied and all over, however, all over was all over the world. This was one repository that contained knowledge from everywhere. Collectively, this was irreplaceable once burned. Gathering all that information again?
      Travel was dangerous even more so than today. I don't know the numbers but a significant percentage didn't make it back home. A large percentage would be lost to the sea and the only proof it ever existed would be the library of Alexandria.
      Also, like everywhere else battle happened destroying documentation. Other cultures might not put this same importance on preservation of written knowledge.
      Other places ships might be captured and people enslaved, the documentation to slave sellers was not terribly important.
      Egypt using papyrus to write their history on we see it didn't stand the ages, it deteriorated as time went on and as the culture rather disappeared.
      This was true of many cultures.
      Besides all of these considerations having one place that was sort of a backup for all culture was convenient. Pretending it didn't burn for a moment we could go pour over these documents from everywhere, learning from humanity collectively. Perhaps seeing two views of the same battle or multiple views of a historical event.
      This would be unbelievable, and yes, we absolutely lost so much information.
      If everything is still out there in cataloged libraries how do we not have that knowledge today? Entire cultures lost to us, traditions, people, explanations of awe inspiring buildings they left behind... we have no information on the majority of our ancestors. India seems to have the best idea of their history but even then they have blanks.
      No, we lost a great deal of knowledge. Setting us back 1k years? I'm not sure... how do you quantify the loss of knowledge that we might never get back ever again. I don't know if we can put a number on years we've been set back since we don't know what's lost.
      I don't understand the burning library representing end of civilization comment exactly... but i can say that where there's no way to say how much we were set back that also applies to it's impossible to say that it did not set civilization back 1k years. I don't believe anyone, let alone you or I could present a definitive statement like that.

    • @eric4681702
      @eric4681702 6 лет назад

      I cried thinking about it. So sad that so much knowledge is lost. We cant cry enough, this was a huge crime, it maddens me.

    • @Reck_on_ing
      @Reck_on_ing 6 лет назад

      Let’s just sayCesar dead get what you could from the library. What are the chances of it being in the Vatican?

  • @jameshamm1267
    @jameshamm1267 6 лет назад +387

    History is written by the victors. An they tell the tale they would like to be known

    • @magistrumartium
      @magistrumartium 6 лет назад +26

      I'm so sick of that saying. Long, long ago it had some truth to it but in modern times, when billions of people can read and write, history is written by losers as well as winners. The US lost the war in Vietnam and there are many, many books and documentaries about it, written by Americans, so there's just one example. Losers write history too, not just victors.

    • @jameshamm1267
      @jameshamm1267 6 лет назад +10

      @@magistrumartium An how many average folk will ever read about the other outlook or even know those books exist. Education an self thought is lacking in the states so long as people follow the program as they will that statement will hold more truth than it needs to.

    • @ChemistryAmsterdam
      @ChemistryAmsterdam 5 лет назад

      2018 Same

    • @ChemistryAmsterdam
      @ChemistryAmsterdam 5 лет назад +1

      @@jameshamm1267 well, Julius could have called the libary Fake News 😂 Why burn it!? If you dont like a topic like Alex Jones, just delete the section.

    • @neo1053
      @neo1053 5 лет назад

      James very true statement

  • @09rja
    @09rja 4 года назад +29

    Lets think about it this way (from a more recent example): Germany was basically leveled by 1945 (including lots of libraries).....and yet the technology they had survived. In fact, it improved over time. Why? Well, the people did. The notion that some great scientific knowledge was lost with this library presupposes that all scholars were either killed with the library or left everything at the door when they went home.

    • @aepfelchen1181
      @aepfelchen1181 4 года назад +5

      You can't remember everything tho. Miniscule details they forgot might have been crucial for scholars in later years also.

    • @crazgra
      @crazgra 3 года назад +9

      America took the Germans top scientist is how the tech survived. Verner Von Bron? Idk if thats spelled correct.

    • @09rja
      @09rja 3 года назад +5

      @@crazgra That's kind of my point: when Von Braun was grabbed by the Americans....he didn't say "Sorry guys, can't help you. My library in [insert whatever German city you want here] is ashes."

    • @jcscss9527
      @jcscss9527 3 года назад +1

      So did Russian's they took just as many top scientists and others as well. While all victors suppress certain information from us civilians unfortunately

    • @kelvinfairwell6134
      @kelvinfairwell6134 3 года назад

      The Afrikan priests who were the teachers of the so called Greek philosophers, were murdered along with the burning of the library. The Romans thought that they had all the knowledge, thus throwing Europe into it's DARK Ages!!!

  • @tamaraaa993
    @tamaraaa993 5 лет назад +711

    what you said at the end reminds me of bombing of National library in Serbia in 1941. by Nazis. Around 300k books were lost, around 1000 of those were original documents from from middle ages like musical pieces, royal notes, small paintings, other artistic works and letters and when asked why to bomb library first (it was Easter and with that act we entered WWII) some German general said: because their for centuries built national identity lies there
    EDIT because apparently a lot of people like to just input their view of what i wanted to say and just assumed that i compared national library of small eastern European country to the largest library of an old century (and probably human history), i just need to clarify - THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID.
    as you may see, what i said is "what you said at the end reminds me of..." and what i DIDN'T say is "Alexandria and Serbia's destroyed libraries were EXACTLY THE SAME by both volume AND importance". thank you for time, bye

    • @hogweedblitz8739
      @hogweedblitz8739 5 лет назад +51

      Wow, history just loves to repeat itself with humans.... I never knew of the Serbian Library, thanks for sharing! Such a shame that we are slowly progressing back to an age of ignorance for most people growing up today, rather than getting everyone well educated and taught how to think. And the destruction of Serbia's Library for such a narrow minded reason only exemplifies how much longer we have to evolve before we become truly intelligent.

    • @Danny88Jay
      @Danny88Jay 5 лет назад +23

      General said what? That sentence doesn't make sense..

    • @tamaraaa993
      @tamaraaa993 5 лет назад +30

      @@Danny88Jay it doesn't make sense grammatically? What he meant was: you built your national identity for centuries and now we're gonna destroy it. Sorry for bad English

    • @lamarravery4094
      @lamarravery4094 5 лет назад +11

      We are moving away from enlightenment, we will destroy knowledge again and will have to start over again.

    • @beyzasray9223
      @beyzasray9223 5 лет назад +10

      so the romans were tryna delete their identity hoping to have power over them bc what gave Egyptians power was their knowledge that built up their identity

  • @thepleblian2079
    @thepleblian2079 7 лет назад +103

    The contents of the library were not destroyed, they were taken to Rome and reside in the basement of the Vatican.

    • @jonnyslide8794
      @jonnyslide8794 7 лет назад +13

      The Pleblian Yes i have to agree!! they call themselves the Iluminati because they have the ancient knowledge which they want to keep for themselves and have control over all of us human beings in the world!

    • @herenow2895
      @herenow2895 7 лет назад +9

      If Ceaser burnt the Library down and took all the documents back to Rome, where were they kept until the Roman Catholic church and Vatican were created ? The Vatican was built in 1929 and around the time of the burning of the Library of Alexandria, the Catholic church wasnt even a proper organisation ?

    • @sarge27271
      @sarge27271 7 лет назад

      @The Pleblian, BINGO!!!

    • @thepleblian2079
      @thepleblian2079 7 лет назад

      Here now - Where was the Vatican built?

    • @herenow2895
      @herenow2895 7 лет назад +7

      The Pleblian - Rome. They created a Vatican state and built the vatican in it.
      Ceaser was an educated bloke and I suspect he would of recognised the worth of the knowledge in the library.
      If he took it all, I should think that it would have been documented as it would have been a huge job of work and would have drawn considerable attention. Unless they did it all in the dead of night, first, and once all the scrolls were away, probably in a ship, then they set fire to the Library, maybe ? With the aim of making it appear that the scrolls etc had been destroyed in the fire.
      But if Ceaser did spirit, all the treasures of Alexandia away, they would have probably ended up with what would have been the precursor to the Catholic church. As the Catholic church was created by the Romans. Created to maintain control through fear of hell rather than by the sword. They no longer had the man power to maintain control over their empire by military means, so Constantine spread the Roman catholic church and its doctrine.
      So , the scrolls probably did end up in the vatican, once it was built.

  • @FrenchfryGamer
    @FrenchfryGamer 5 лет назад +157

    I have a strong urge to build a time machine whenever this is brought up

    • @ChocoPelaakanava
      @ChocoPelaakanava 5 лет назад +2

      nothing of importance was lost.

    • @thwalesproductions
      @thwalesproductions 5 лет назад +11

      @@ChocoPelaakanava COUGH this library today would mean we could have flying cars, robots we would probably be on Mars by 2000. This library could of made us MUCH MORE ADVANCED TODAY

    • @ChocoPelaakanava
      @ChocoPelaakanava 5 лет назад +1

      Tyiler Hanks Literally almost all of the books were copied somewhere else.

    • @dandan1611
      @dandan1611 4 года назад +2

      @@thwalesproductions well that sure is some bullshit

    • @yeahbronah6319
      @yeahbronah6319 4 года назад

      Hey i mean thats possible bro , not joking

  • @ELEMENTALMUZ
    @ELEMENTALMUZ Год назад +2

    Great video here and humanity should learn much more about the legendary Library of Alexandria! I've only heard about it myself during the past few years and I just turned 48! I don't ever recall anyone teaching about Alexandra in grade school, high school or college!

  • @silversauceran
    @silversauceran 5 лет назад +260

    Library of Alexandria burned
    Twin towers collapsed
    Spire of Norte Dame burned
    Wan Shi Tong’s library collapsed in sand storm

    • @punkhazard1531
      @punkhazard1531 5 лет назад +71

      i would be happy losing two meaningless buildings and a cathedral if it meant keeping alexandria's library

    • @brandonbeard4019
      @brandonbeard4019 5 лет назад +15

      @@punkhazard1531 That is messed up, but I do agree with you. I am going to assume you know where we would be as a civilization today had that not happened. Do you think that we (or another civilization) were as advanced or more back then, then our current civilization? ***not assuming you know, but figure. Sorry for the mistype.

    • @brandonbeard4019
      @brandonbeard4019 5 лет назад +3

      @@punkhazard1531 *We would be way more advanced, is what I was getting at. My bad.

    • @_FanoT
      @_FanoT 5 лет назад

      Collapsed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @weedypigeon2nd283
      @weedypigeon2nd283 5 лет назад +7

      Brandon Beard Yeah. ..I wonder how much fascinating ancient knowledge was lost and how much more of our past we'd know about.

  • @joseluna1738
    @joseluna1738 7 лет назад +346

    You're a better teacher than my entire high school staff keep it up.

    • @alexking9177
      @alexking9177 7 лет назад +20

      Jose Luna it's because he actually cares about what he's saying and whose listening

    • @taoist32
      @taoist32 7 лет назад +8

      Alex King The school system is too regimented like the military. Teachers are considered lowly employees. They really have no say in how things get taught. School is a business and it takes money to run. Employees don't get paid to tell the truth. They get paid for following the rules. This is why many teachers quit. There is no real development of student growth besides the basics of simple math, English, and a bit of critical thinking.

    • @carick235
      @carick235 7 лет назад +3

      taoist40 that is maybe situation in US, but in Europe children have advanced math already in elementary school, program is much wider and history is teached in great details,i can bet that over 70% of people will know something about this library, while in us very small percent will answer you since you have very conservative and rigid school system where alnost all focus is on national history while history of the rest of the world is pushed aside.

    • @MeowingWhale
      @MeowingWhale 7 лет назад +1

      taoist40 That thing with the teachers isn't true at all, all of my teachers have taught very uniquely
      Edit: At least in my experience

    • @cascorick8253
      @cascorick8253 7 лет назад +1

      Polish Performance very uniquely Catholic school I take it

  • @Kaervek87
    @Kaervek87 5 лет назад +242

    The Elder Scrolls.

    • @saltydunmer3453
      @saltydunmer3453 5 лет назад +11

      Jon R I have Skooma for you, if you have coin

    • @saltydunmer3453
      @saltydunmer3453 5 лет назад +4

      Stasis Field An intellectual, what an extraordinary rarity.

    • @johnnysins4715
      @johnnysins4715 5 лет назад +3

      @roninn ah a veteran i see

    • @connorross4571
      @connorross4571 5 лет назад +3

      The Moth Priests must release the knowledge.

    • @larryh8319
      @larryh8319 5 лет назад +3

      I am the dovahkin

  • @smthsmth
    @smthsmth Месяц назад +1

    Btw, the Library of Pergamum, one of the most significant libraries of the ancient world, also unfortunately did not leave behind any physical remnants of its collection. It was almost as big as Library of Alexandria.

  • @MrMiamiswaggz305
    @MrMiamiswaggz305 7 лет назад +193

    Disgusting, the destruction of knowledge.

    • @victorluna9434
      @victorluna9434 7 лет назад +4

      MrMiamiswaggz305 I agree it truly is a shame

    • @poisonsquid37
      @poisonsquid37 7 лет назад +18

      It wasn't destroyed just stolen. Now the pedophile rapists in the Vatican have it.

    • @PatrickBaptist
      @PatrickBaptist 7 лет назад +3

      Right, the vatican is a host to many paintings of naked children. Figures islam came from them.

    • @pangtsr
      @pangtsr 7 лет назад +6

      Patrick TheBaptist it was handed to them by the almighty extraterrestrial fidget chicken. It came down from the sky leaving chemtrails. Lord Rothschild was driving it.

    • @jermmcnasty420
      @jermmcnasty420 7 лет назад +2

      MrMiamiswaggz305 if they destroy the knowledge then they can shape history any way they like.

  • @winesgone
    @winesgone 5 лет назад +498

    _Plot twist:_ It was actually a vast curation of the first ever memes, and a school on how to make the best memes.
    The lose of this sacred building didn’t set us back 1000 but 1,000,000 years!

    • @mik3pif782
      @mik3pif782 5 лет назад +5

      i wish i could laugh about it but its just frustrates me. just a fraction of the surviving works set the stage for modern sciences. i cant even imagine what we could achieve with all the works that were stored there.

    • @winesgone
      @winesgone 5 лет назад

      Mik3 Pif I try not to get depressed about that sort of thing, it’s a never-ending rabbit hole of missed opportunities.
      For example, just think of all the potentially world changing amazing people killed in the world wars.
      Imagine if Sir Tim Burners Lee died young and didn’t create the WWW, we wouldn’t even be talking.
      Imagine if Carthage destroyed Ancient Rome, the course of history changed for ever... would we be 2000 years ahead? No one knows!
      Geez... I feel depressed and lost now... :/

    • @ivanbregar1646
      @ivanbregar1646 5 лет назад

      Hmmmmm This sounds firmiliar...
      *Cough* *cough* *EU*

    • @lisavauhti7675
      @lisavauhti7675 5 лет назад +1

      Julius caesar thought "There must be millions of fake news papers about me"

    • @dante3190
      @dante3190 5 лет назад

      That makes it just so much worse

  • @engrfka
    @engrfka 5 лет назад +83

    I wish we had the Animus in reality; so that if we had any related DNA from the time of Ancient Egypt, we’d be able to witness and study from the library of Alexandria and transfer that information to the modern age.

    • @Zliqx
      @Zliqx 3 года назад +3

      bot search for assasins creed origins

    • @ayaalaa3516
      @ayaalaa3516 3 года назад

      Wdym modern Egyptians have the same dna of ancient egyptainsss

    • @chris8878
      @chris8878 3 года назад

      What information? All the sci-if fake history you saw on TV? It was probably political records and early alchemical research on mixing crap and Greek building designs which aren’t rocket science, crop cycle records. This ancient world was not some advanced time, if your not happy with the world today try and understand that in these time nearly all people were illiterate, most lived until 30-40 and died of disease or war, there was so much conquest it was the norm, mass rapes, genocide, no law outside of cities, farmers were often targets in war and slaughtered, everyone reliant on said farmers for all food, insane evil religions with all manners of full on idol worship, routine sacrifice (pagans) of children too. Very dark time!

    • @a.m.armstrong8354
      @a.m.armstrong8354 3 года назад +1

      @@ayaalaa3516 They don't. Only Copts have the ancient DNA.

    • @nikmacfarlane6117
      @nikmacfarlane6117 3 года назад

      Lol just give it time.

  • @thoughtsfired1704
    @thoughtsfired1704 Год назад +1

    I've been trying for years for this information to reach the right person. There is no easy way to say this. God told me as a child." The books in the Library of Alexandria appeared to be burned but we're not burned." Everything I've learned up until this point makes perfect sense with that. Happy to discuss with anybody that calls BS

    • @gfk6560
      @gfk6560 Год назад

      BS

    • @overdrivedrinker8284
      @overdrivedrinker8284 Год назад

      If you talk to god, that’s one thing, you’re religious.
      But if you claim god talks to you, that’s the beginnings of delusion and an unwell mind. Or maybe you just had a dream about it, the brain makes up all kinds of weird shit in dreams.

  • @25748410
    @25748410 6 лет назад +349

    Another very bad burning of a library is the burning of books in the Nalanda University, The foremost source of education and research in India which attracted scholars from all over Asia between 5th Century CE to 13th Century CE... The Delhi Sultanate's emperor Bhaktiyar Khilji destroyed it and it is said that there were so many books and manuscrips dating back to 2nd Century BC that a part of Human Civilization's history was destroyed...some people in their writings have even remarked the books burnt for 7 days...it is said to be such a fierce loss of human research

    • @MiG9D
      @MiG9D 5 лет назад +10

      Wow man, I hadn't even heard of this!

    • @SD_7878
      @SD_7878 5 лет назад +15

      Bhai edit this, it kept burning for 3 months, its smoke covered the hills of the area for months.

    • @sidzifus7083
      @sidzifus7083 5 лет назад +7

      May this royal asshole of Bhaktiyar Khilji burn
      in hell for ever and ever.

    • @siddarth3955
      @siddarth3955 5 лет назад +22

      3 months not 7 days, every record says so even Chinese record of the date says so as many chinese scholars had lived there to gain knowledge, Nalanda was the perfect example of secular university, they taught both buddhist and Hindu school of thought as well as astronomy, history, art, science, geography, defence, administration, medicine and many more. The library had almost all the texts ever produced as knowledge in Asia. Every scholar who came from far brought a book containing some kind of knowledge which was safely placed in Nalanda, well not so safe ...

    • @ajinkya3780
      @ajinkya3780 5 лет назад +7

      Abhradeep Guha Result of ISLAMIC TERROR

  • @TheRazvy1990
    @TheRazvy1990 7 лет назад +572

    ask people where is mcdonalds......98 % will know

    • @AlexThomson1000
      @AlexThomson1000 7 лет назад +13

      That's not really fair. I could tell you where all sorts of shops and restaurants are in my home town. I could tell you where mcdonalds is and I haven't eaten there in years.

    • @patrickmann3123
      @patrickmann3123 7 лет назад +1

      Septimiu Razvan Bot where I live McDonald's closed down...not enough footfall.

    • @TheRazvy1990
      @TheRazvy1990 7 лет назад

      Patrick Mann =)))))

    • @JorgeGeorgeD
      @JorgeGeorgeD 7 лет назад +12

      Septimiu Razvan Bot - Well, to be fair, McDonalds is everywhere. Just drive in a direction and you'll find one.

    • @christianhoffmann8252
      @christianhoffmann8252 7 лет назад +35

      One might argue that knowing where to get food is more important than knowing what happened 2000 years ago in a foreign country.

  • @nordineelm8805
    @nordineelm8805 6 лет назад +328

    What if Ceaser burned down an empty library .. and preserved the scrolls in in rome/vatican... as you mentioned.. ?
    and the vatican made religion more important that science ..?

    • @malikbey3752
      @malikbey3752 6 лет назад +16

      Nordine Elm damn u got me wondering...

    • @axelmok4_channel391
      @axelmok4_channel391 6 лет назад +14

      From what I learned in school the burning of the Library was an accident, Caesar had to burn his own ships which spread to the dock then Library, what was save was little because most were distracted with the on going war.

    • @venley28
      @venley28 6 лет назад +1

      Pretty clever... Maybe possible and make sense.

    • @NPC_5120
      @NPC_5120 6 лет назад

      Shhhhhh that's why the Vatican is a secret lol

    • @NPC_5120
      @NPC_5120 6 лет назад +2

      @Generation of Revenge
      They hide the science cause in religion they can control the public

  • @cambo6911
    @cambo6911 9 месяцев назад

    Great little expose my friend, I remember when I was going down the rabbit hole about 15 years ago and I learned about the Library of Alexandria. I was captivated in amazement from the get-go. I used to suffer anxiety from the information that was lost their.

  • @MrWarhead16
    @MrWarhead16 7 лет назад +807

    Imagine we couldve had anti gravity fidget spinners right now. Just kidding.

    • @Jblaze024
      @Jblaze024 7 лет назад +14

      Jessrey Mark Solijon your probably right. There was alot of knowledge, true knowledge that was derived without distractions, such as t.v's., video games, or any other garbage that rots the brain.

    • @droid264
      @droid264 7 лет назад

      Jessrey Mark Solijon ... could be...

    • @andrewcummerson1529
      @andrewcummerson1529 7 лет назад

      Is that a euphomism?

    • @babysealclub11
      @babysealclub11 7 лет назад +5

      Bruh... You had me at imagine.

    • @elbow005
      @elbow005 6 лет назад

      Its quite true

  • @arkinyte13
    @arkinyte13 7 лет назад +1017

    Despite your awesome enlightening content, you get a lot of crazy fucks in the comment section.

    • @Mintteacup_
      @Mintteacup_ 7 лет назад

      arkinyte13 where?

    • @LMcAwesome
      @LMcAwesome 7 лет назад +22

      Seriously. What the hell is happening here? It's like one deranged lunatic with a thousand accounts is posting all at once...

    • @feonjun
      @feonjun 7 лет назад +16

      +arkinyte I agree. Some people are so brain washed or just full of hate that they can't accept humanity have the same frailties all over the world and that is assholes burn books.

    • @rickspalding3047
      @rickspalding3047 7 лет назад +3

      u would say that u leftist sycophant

    • @feonjun
      @feonjun 7 лет назад +6

      +Rick S
      Yeah, that must be it because there's no such a thing as an independent thinker or someone who actually read both side of perspectives.

  • @WTF_BBQ
    @WTF_BBQ 7 лет назад +90

    Just like everyone said, I don't believe the contents were burned down. They were likely stolen, and the people who kept those knowledge gained vast amounts of power over the centuries.

    • @ravissary79
      @ravissary79 7 лет назад +5

      THE ONLY Johnson totally, they went back in time in a hot tub and burned it down, but only after making copies with an ancient xerox machine!

    • @TheTariqibnziyad
      @TheTariqibnziyad 7 лет назад +4

      WTF BBQ illuminati!!!

    • @WTF_BBQ
      @WTF_BBQ 7 лет назад +9

      +Nathan
      2 things you didn't take into account......
      1. There were probably information in there that did not exist anywhere else, and only accessible to a few people after the library was destroyed. The kind of Information that would take several generations for another smart and lucky guy to re-discover and teach us all over again (Like Tesla).
      2. If it takes you all of 20years to learn Science, math, language, medicine, religion, philosophy, arts, and politics from the day you started school to the time you graduate college, then how long does it really take for them to learn certain interesting topics contained in that library ?? Hundreds or thousands of years ??

    • @jackwalters5506
      @jackwalters5506 7 лет назад +4

      WTF BBQ That would be kind of hard to plan, since all historical documents point towards the burning being accidental.

    • @requiem4391
      @requiem4391 7 лет назад

      Doubtful

  • @paulreadsthebible6584
    @paulreadsthebible6584 2 года назад

    I was taught it was burnt in a slave revolt, not by Ceasar. But what did my old, English teacher in 8th & 9th grades, in 97' - 98' really know? Perhaps he was correct. He was one of the best teachers I've ever had. Thanks, Mr. Gabrio. Peace.

  • @irisbean2966
    @irisbean2966 5 лет назад +235

    I’m fifteen, and I’ve never heard about the Library of Alexandria. I’m shaken.
    Imagine the information it had? Including on old civilization.

    • @mosescuh3644
      @mosescuh3644 4 года назад +33

      Atlantis and the true porpuse as well as who built the great pyramids because we know they're much older than we think and the Egyptians simply found them and settled around them

    • @thevipgurlz2802
      @thevipgurlz2802 4 года назад +2

      Strong reaction to stg you didn't know existed means you had stg to do with it.In a good way.

    • @CaptainCaterpillars
      @CaptainCaterpillars 3 года назад +1

      Stupid kid 🙄

    • @NLamki2002
      @NLamki2002 3 года назад +2

      You're 16 now ? 👀

    • @lilcargoship6142
      @lilcargoship6142 3 года назад +12

      @@CaptainCaterpillars says the 30 year old virgin living in his mom's basement

  • @Carlos-dm5fo
    @Carlos-dm5fo 5 лет назад +79

    The Vatican shouldn't be allowed to keep information and not share it with the public.

    • @kaixlynn8662
      @kaixlynn8662 5 лет назад +10

      >shares it with the public
      > public decides to vandalize and ruin the scriptures and writings for memes
      Yea.. i doubt that. Humans are dumb. Not all but generally humans are dumb.

    • @JustReckles5
      @JustReckles5 5 лет назад

      @WWG1WGA! USA says the guy repping USA... ha!

    • @James-vq4jw
      @James-vq4jw 5 лет назад +3

      WWG1WGA! USA you are acting like a disgrace to our country

    • @mrblexit7152
      @mrblexit7152 5 лет назад +1

      Let's learn how to Astral project so we can look at this stuff ourselves.

    • @sixchiensblancs
      @sixchiensblancs 5 лет назад

      @clips
      No it isn't, can you prove that asinine comment?

  • @smellyfeet11
    @smellyfeet11 5 лет назад +94

    1000 years.... think about it.
    We would've colonised the moon and mars at this point. Maybe even more.
    Energy use will be so much easier than it is now. Making it cheaper and greener.
    Traveling big or small distances would be way faster.
    Imagine the technological feats we could've accomplished.
    And so much more stuff we could've done...
    Thanks a lot ceasar

    • @smellyfeet11
      @smellyfeet11 5 лет назад +6

      @Chris Derry that's also a possibilty yeah. But i'd like to think that we will find some solutions to the current problems we face that lead to the earth's destruction. And if not, well, at least humanity still survives as we are closing in on to the first stages to colinising mars and the moon in the next 100 years. And i don't think the earth will be destroyed within these 100 years. at least not by ourselves

    • @philpeterson7182
      @philpeterson7182 5 лет назад

      I travelled all the way to Alexandria, was roman all over the city and all I got was a Caesar salad.

    • @RealBadGaming52
      @RealBadGaming52 5 лет назад

      Steampunk Roman Empire

    • @Smile2Joy
      @Smile2Joy 5 лет назад +5

      It's interesting your first thought is to colonize a distant place. Very interesting. Same behaviors, same people, same destroyers.

    • @smellyfeet11
      @smellyfeet11 5 лет назад +3

      @@Smile2Joy colonisation is a must if we want to survive these next couple thousands to millions of years. Same behavior, yes. But for a different cause. The past cause was greed, the current cause is mostly survival and advancement of our civilisation.
      Same people? Depends on perspective. In a sense, yes. But also a clear no.
      Same destroyers? Well that's also based on persepectives. Destruction and creation are often 2 sides of a coin. It's not always bad. But there are 2 factors to consider if you wish to justify destruction. 1 is what drives the destruction. Why did it happen? What's the cause? 2 is whether you are on the receiving side of destruction or the one causing it.
      I personally think i'm not like Caesar but who knows

  • @brintonsdad
    @brintonsdad 4 года назад +1

    By the time the library was burnt, it was not the place of learned renown of it's glory days. It had been in disrepair and much of it's holdings had already vanished from time due to neglect. That it was anything more than a run down dump at the time of it's destruction is one of the oldest Urban Legends of history..

  • @ramkrishnadas4230
    @ramkrishnadas4230 6 лет назад +430

    Julius Ceaser was a conqueror, no doubt; but is there any history to the book burning by ancient Rome? As far as I know, Greeks used to collect knowledge, books and even intellectuals from the conquered lands.

    • @crzylkfx
      @crzylkfx 6 лет назад +90

      Ramkrishna Das There’s no indication he meant to burn the library. He was burning the docks, and the fire spread from there.

    • @ramkrishnadas4230
      @ramkrishnadas4230 6 лет назад +32

      Yes, that is what I am saying, that even if it happened it would have been an accidents. Christians and Muslims (except brief stint in Muslim world before Ghazali) had the habit of burning libraries of Pagan-and suppressing their knowledge considering it evil.

    • @crzylkfx
      @crzylkfx 6 лет назад +39

      Ramkrishna Das the only example of Christians or Muslims burning non-Christian or Muslim libraries that I know of is the Conquistadors with the Aztecs, and that was because they were horrified with their human sacrifices and wanted to wipe the religion out.
      Otherwise, they were perfectly happy to copy and learn from Pagan sources. A bit too much, actually. It took them far too long to admit Pagans like Aristotle, Plato, and Euclid were wrong about some things.

    • @donovanlight6278
      @donovanlight6278 6 лет назад +20

      Romans and greeks are not the same, and did not share the same ideals. That being said i doubt he meant to burn down the library specifically, things sometimes happen like that when you lay siege to a port

    • @ramkrishnadas4230
      @ramkrishnadas4230 6 лет назад +5

      Of course Greeks and Romans were not same. As far as I know ancient Greek did not burnt libraries; did Romans burn libraries? This guy is not saying there was any accident; he says every other hypothesis is BS, it has to be Julius Ceaser? And what is the evidence he is giving for it? Zero. Among all alternatives, Christians and Muslims have history of burning and destroying Pagan literature and text.
      the way named after Alexander the Great
      00:36
      and is believed to have been burnt down
      00:38
      by Julius Caesar in the year 48 BC
      05:57
      however it is widely accepted and
      06:00
      honestly the timetable really
      06:01
      conclusively shows that it had to have
      06:03
      been Julius Caesar in the year 48 BC
      06:05
      that's not to say that there may have
      06:07
      not been more than one attacks such as
      06:08
      the aurelion and invasion in the 3rd
      06:11
      century AD or the decree of Coptic Pope
      06:14
      Theo Phyllis in the 391 ad and there's
      06:17
      even been suggestions of a Muslim
      06:19
      conquest in 66 42 AD or thereafter guys
      06:23
      that's all BS it was Julius Caesar it's
      06:25
      so obvious the timetable fits it
      06:27

  • @truestory907
    @truestory907 6 лет назад +60

    The Internet , is today’s Library of Alexandria

    • @marccuffe6392
      @marccuffe6392 6 лет назад +15

      Lmao, the internet is filled with so much misinformation and disinformation, comparing it to being a modern library of Alexandria is kind of ridiculous. Not bashing on you, just saying bro.

    • @alexlivingston1646
      @alexlivingston1646 6 лет назад

      Marc Cuffe but it also has the 1 percent like this guy who actually use research and logic

    • @TriniLush7
      @TriniLush7 6 лет назад +2

      no, the deep web is... don't confuse the two.

    • @ClearReception
      @ClearReception 6 лет назад

      True Story I agree with you and to add my two cents, more people need to get to the library and find those pearls of wisdom hidden in dusty volumes and bring them to the internet.

    • @nicholasg.6175
      @nicholasg.6175 6 лет назад +4

      Marc Cuffe But who's to say the library of Alexandria didn't have misinformation? The guy explained in the video that they copied everything they could get their hands on, so there is no doubt many of the documents were false.
      I don't undermine the significance the library had in the past, but the internet is thousands of times bigger and has more genuine information than the library, no doubt about it.

  • @SollomonTheWise
    @SollomonTheWise 7 лет назад +460

    damnit Julius

    • @mr.qwerty3125
      @mr.qwerty3125 7 лет назад +92

      Lyn Charles now I'm glad that nigga was assassinated

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 7 лет назад +6

      Mr. Qwerty who Trayvon?

    • @jaidsalgado
      @jaidsalgado 7 лет назад +4

      Traplord Farquaad fuck you

    • @F1RacingFans
      @F1RacingFans 7 лет назад +2

      Lyn Charles i honestly doubt it was julius there isn't much proof of that there are other more likely scenarios out there

    • @KyChristensen
      @KyChristensen 7 лет назад +10

      Lyn Charles "I said go LEARN..." J. Caesar

  • @trime1851
    @trime1851 Год назад

    There were multiple burnings of the Library of Alexandria:
    "Despite all this, the library is most famous (or rather infamous) for its burning. Throughout its near 1,000-year history, the library was burned multiple times.
    According to Plutarch, the first person to blame is Julius Caesar. On his pursuit of Pompey into Egypt in 48 BCE, Caesar was cut off by a large fleet of Egyptian boats in the harbor of Alexandria. He ordered the boats to be burned. The fleet was destroyed, but the flames spread to the city and the library. It’s not known how much of the library was destroyed.
    When Caesar documented this attack in his account of the civil war, he left out the destruction of the library; however, this is not uncommon of Caesar, who often left out damaging facts about himself in his writing. However, despite this loss, the library lived on. According to reports, Mark Antony gave Cleopatra 200,000 scrolls for the library well after Caesar’s attack.
    The second, more famous, burning of the library came at the hands of Theophilus who was Patriarch of Alexandria from 385 to 412 CE. He turned the Temple of Serapis into a Christian church. It is likely that the collection was destroyed by the Christians who moved in. Some sources say nearly 10 percent of the library’s collection was housed in the Temple of Serapis. In the following years, the Christian attack against the library escalated, and the last great pagan philosopher and librarian, Hypatia, was tortured and killed. She was flayed alive by sharp seashells by the Christians.
    The final blow came in 640 CE when Alexandria came under Muslim rule. The Muslim ruler, Caliph Omar, asserted that the library’s contents would “either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous.” The contents of the library were then supposedly used as tinder for the city’s bathhouses. Even then, it is said that it took six months for all the materials to burn."
    It was one of the greatest disasters of human knowledge.

  • @andreaannunziata8268
    @andreaannunziata8268 7 лет назад +142

    Trajan's Empire (the Roman Empire at its greatest extent) wasn't at all just 17 years after Caesar's death... Caesar died in 44 BC, that map is the empire in 117 AD

    • @andreaannunziata8268
      @andreaannunziata8268 7 лет назад +4

      I don't think you're much of an expert on the topic

    • @BrightInsight
      @BrightInsight  7 лет назад +9

      Ever misspoke??

    • @andreaannunziata8268
      @andreaannunziata8268 7 лет назад

      Bright Insight ok I was maybe too harsh

    • @andreaannunziata8268
      @andreaannunziata8268 7 лет назад +2

      Bright Insight mostly to make sure the comment would be read

    • @sankara6823
      @sankara6823 7 лет назад +2

      jmiquelmb your a fool to think that thousands of men would invade a land and only stop at its educational centre for no apparent reason,they knew taking away the kemetians knowledge will disable them completely,this knowledge was later boot legged in Italy and greece and consequently lead to the rise of people like Galileo etc it was then gathered and stored in the vatican library today which is nuclear protected not even the pope can just walk in there

  • @stephengardin2423
    @stephengardin2423 7 лет назад +52

    As repugnant as it sounds that 'The Romans' were to have burned this library into ashes during the time of Julius it is more likely that the burning was merely a deception. Could it be that the scrolls were secreted away to somewhere else and the buildings torched to hide that? 'The Romans' were very practical. They were not above utilising a superior idea and calling it their own. Julius, although ruthless, was no fool. Destroying knowledge was not his style.

    • @besticudcumupwith7965
      @besticudcumupwith7965 7 лет назад +5

      stephen gardin ...the Vatican archives hold all the answers. Boggles the mind what they're hiding... what they're guilty of.

    • @markomarko3336
      @markomarko3336 7 лет назад +8

      Vatican and christianity weren't around at that time at all. Vatican didn't even exist!
      And the christianity was accepted in Rome 2 and a half centuries after.
      So please, tell us, what are they quilty of when you mention Alexandria?
      You are watching a history video, and yet you fail to utilise your brain. Use it or loose it. Or is it too late?

    • @Bebolife12345
      @Bebolife12345 7 лет назад +5

      Marko Marko lose*
      ironic.

    • @trellis5615
      @trellis5615 7 лет назад

      Tibet still has books.

    • @stephengardin2423
      @stephengardin2423 7 лет назад

      No, not an accident but, a deliberate misdirection to throw the scent off. Putting myself in the position of the hierarchy that is exactly the course of action I would have undertaken.

  • @omaralmubayd
    @omaralmubayd 6 лет назад +1137

    Please make a video about The House of Wisdom, The library that was based in Baghdad...which was destroyed by the Mongols. Thank for the great videos.

    • @chrisbarnes22
      @chrisbarnes22 6 лет назад +53

      Never heard of that one, will have to check it out

    • @twistedwithmelancholy8436
      @twistedwithmelancholy8436 6 лет назад +22

      I've never heard of that either. Seems interesting. Thankyou (^w^ )

    • @everestlichtenberg6691
      @everestlichtenberg6691 6 лет назад +124

      Tablets were in Bagdad , the oldest library predating Alexandria, they were discovered by British scientist, tranported out of Bagdad improperly and now cannot be put back together for translation so they are stored in some vault in England but......possibly more clues were there however in 2001 they (the kabal) robbed the museum of important artifacts (only a handful could have done this, no investigation ever took place and no one really knew how systematic that was done) and the perpetual current bombing of Mosul by Israel and the US and outlying areas isn't helpful and has halted all archeological digs...now lets get into Syria destruction of Palmyra etc...that would be the second biggest crime in the world what Israel and US are doing to these sacred sites and the infiltration of CIA sending and hiring black army to pose as revolutionaries (what a farce) to topple governments so they can mine it of VIP minerals etc.

    • @omaralmubayd
      @omaralmubayd 6 лет назад +11

      Everest Lichtenberg true

    • @beeb929
      @beeb929 6 лет назад +3

      Everest Lichtenberg but isis are KSA made ????

  • @SW_investor
    @SW_investor 2 года назад

    Isn’t it something that RUclips has the ability to educate far better and more extensively than the curriculum of high school and college combined?

  • @jonathanadams6673
    @jonathanadams6673 7 лет назад +38

    Ohhh man do I need to talk to you! Finally a youtuber using youtube for all the right reasons. Stick with the accurate research. You are making a world of difference. Thank you. Cfapps rocks by the way

    • @drussthelegend2046
      @drussthelegend2046 6 лет назад

      Ok he really needs to check his facts. It was damaged in 48bc by julius ceasar, it was built in about 330bc and it was finally destroyed in about 350 ad, hence nearly 700 years

  • @johnnyone5722
    @johnnyone5722 6 лет назад +133

    After playing Assassins creed origins I've been hooked on all this stuff.

    • @josephostertag6389
      @josephostertag6389 6 лет назад +8

      Johnny One same dude

    • @isaiasvega1654
      @isaiasvega1654 6 лет назад +1

      YES

    • @bearouch2480
      @bearouch2480 6 лет назад

      Same

    • @rohanofelvenpower5566
      @rohanofelvenpower5566 6 лет назад +2

      Johnny One or watching one piece!. This is ohara.

    • @a.m.9096
      @a.m.9096 6 лет назад +1

      Arramu Maiam - When I saw the title of the video, I honestly thought "Oh shit Oda might have took inspiration from this for the backstory on Ohara".
      I honestly never knew something like that occured in real life, the burning of knowledge/library that is.

  • @DaringNote62
    @DaringNote62 6 лет назад +268

    The Sacred Jedi Texts!

    • @solidsnake6206
      @solidsnake6206 6 лет назад +12

      Daring Note62 page turners they were not.

    • @Ericwkgnil
      @Ericwkgnil 6 лет назад +8

      They have those too hidden in Vatican vaults deep inside.

    • @sebmaster4339
      @sebmaster4339 6 лет назад +3

      *N o t t h e H o l o c r o n s*

    • @phaenix_9846
      @phaenix_9846 6 лет назад +3

      These aren't the scrolls you are looking for..

    • @ZhuGeLiang6969
      @ZhuGeLiang6969 6 лет назад +1

      the jedi and sith already extinct..
      rian Johnson

  • @urphakeandgey6308
    @urphakeandgey6308 2 года назад +1

    Honestly, if it didn't get destroyed then, it would've been destroyed later. Egypt has reworked itself and changed ownership so many times throughout history that I'm just not confident.