The Night Alexandria Burned | The Library That Contained All Human Knowledge

ALEXANDRIA. 48 BC. The greatest city on earth. Home to the Pharos Lighthouse — one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Home to the Mouseion — where Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth, Euclid wrote the foundations of geometry, and Hero of Alexandria invented the first steam engine. And home to the Great Library. Between 400,000 and 700,000 scrolls. Every book ever written. Every civilization's knowledge in one place. Then Julius Caesar set fire to some ships in the harbor. And something happened that humanity has never recovered from. Sophocles wrote 120 plays. We have 7. Sappho wrote 10,000 lines of poetry. We have 650. The rest — gone. We don't know what else was in there. That's the point. We don't know what we don't know. This is what Alexandria really looked like. Before the knowledge disappeared. Part of our Lost Civilizations series. Watch Babylon (600 BC) Watch Persepolis (500 BC) Watch Carthage (200 BC) Watch Pompeii (79 AD) Watch Rome (100 AD) Watch Angkor Wat (1200 AD) Watch Tenochtitlan (1519) Watch London (1666) Watch Paris (1789) Watch New York (1900) Watch Longarone (1963) 📌 CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Pharos Lighthouse — Tallest Building on Earth 1:30 - The Most Cosmopolitan City in the World 3:30 - Alexander. Cleopatra. Caesar. 5:00 - The Mouseion — Where Genius Lived 7:30 - The Great Library — Every Book Ever Written 9:30 - The Night Caesar Set Fire to the Ships 11:30 - Who Really Destroyed the Library? 13:00 - What Did We Lose? What We Will Never Know. 📚 Sources: Britannica: Library of Alexandria Wikipedia: Library of Alexandria World History Encyclopedia: Library of Alexandria National Geographic: Who Burned the Library of Alexandria Live Science: Rise and Fall of the Great Library 🔔 Subscribe — next time we step inside another city the world forgot. #alexandria #city #LibraryOfAlexandria #libraryofalexandria