Historic Events: Killing Knowledge

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Caesar was a bibliophile, and his mouth watered at this magnificent, unparalleled collection of books. Cleopatra was allowing him to take away some of her greatest treasures. The librarians were powerless to resist Cleopatra’s orders. The books were taken to the waterfront, ready to be shipped back to Rome. Then a fire started on one of the ships... Read about the fire at the ancient Egyptian library of Alexandria, the Qin emperor’s book burning and the bonfire of the vanities in the Florence of Michelangelo in this Quik eBook.