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The Great Library At Alexandria Was Destroyed By Budget Cuts, Not Fire

By Gerard @presurfer
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One of the great tragedies of ancient history, memorialized in myths and Hollywood film, is the burning of the great library at Alexandria. But the reality of the Library's end was actually a lot less pyrotechnic than that. A major cause of the Library's ruin was government budget cuts.

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