Though I suppose Alexandria actually had some good reads.
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The Library was burned (accidentally) by Caesar when the city was under siege. The city itself was sacked by a crusade in the 1300s, led by Cypriots. I don't think the Goths were ever really involved as they were too far north. The Visigoths (an offshoot of the Goths) sacked Rome, which is probably what you're thinking of.
The library was sadly plagued with misfortunes from Caesar's little fumble onward and lost chunks of the collection in fires after earthquakes. Europeans would emphasize one particular fire as 'destroying' the library there during the Muslim conquest from the Byzantines as a way to slander them. The Library of Baghdad was actually larger and more useful for scholars for a longer time, and was destroyed all at once, and people apparently mashed the two (600 years apart) events together. When the Mongols destroyed the library in Baghdad they threw the texts into the river and it turned black from all the ink in the water
That the library at Baghdad doesn't get the love from historians of the library at Alexandria is probably an exercise is racism.
No! Evul masonist babylonian papist empire destroyed alexandria because they didn’t want free energy to become global knowledge!!!1!!1
Ah, thank you for educating me. A bunch of half-remembered stuff and Ren Faire costumes.
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