Episode #140- What Became of the Great Library of Alexandria? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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The History of the Library of Alexandria
tradition has it that the topmost leader of the empire, the caliph omar, or omar as he is sometimes also called was him who ultimately ordered the destruction of the library. The story seems to have originally come from the famous mediaeval travel writer al bagdadi, who visited alexandria in the early thirteenth century. This story was then picked up and elaborated on in the historical writings of the christian author gregory bar habreus. In his version of the story, back in the early days of the moslem conquest of egypt, the governor of omru was petitioned by a local alexandrian scholar named john the gramm
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