History Channel - Ancient Mysteries - The Lost Treasure of the Alexandria Library 1/5

[RidiculouslyLuis]

I don't know why anyone romanticizes Julius Caesar. He was a monster for his destruction of the Gauls and the destruction of the Library.

[BrAdEnSB666]

Julius Caesar is actually the biggest dumbass that ever lived

[battwann88]

The library is not lost! I have it downloaded in my thumbdrive right here!!

[beet74]

We know very little about this library, yet no one doubts that it existed. Why is that? Many other wonders of the ancient world have their very existence debated, yet this place is never considered a myth, all without proof one way or another.

[Standuble]

@beet74 Scraps of evidence do survive, some of the scrolls do survive also.

[beet74]

@Standuble I am not saying that the Library didn't exist, I am just curious why other wonders have their existence doubted yet the Library doesn't. It has no more scraps left than some of the other so called Wonders of the Ancient World.

[ninjamojo711]

@beet74 Ancient historians and philosophers write about it.

Among them being Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Seneca.

The Letter of Aristeas seems to be the earliest mention at around 2 BCE.

[scottieman2]

Yeah, I watch South Park and Beavis and Butthead. But I still enjoy educational stuff, too.

[Chemgirl99]

Excellent Vid!

[Tranceecnart101]

240p we meet again.



[forgottenmemories63]

Everyone has heard of the Great Libraries of Alexandria, yet few have heard of the Great Buddhist Universities and Libraries of Taxilla & Nalanda in Ancient India.

The Great Library that probably rivaled Alexandria in Size and Volume or perhaps held Texts on every single subject, Often visited by Ancient Chinese Pilgrims who contributed to the Knowledge.

Sadly, These Glorious Libraries were burnt down by Invading Muslim Savages for the only Reason - It did not have a Quran in it..

[Ihatethisugh1]

@forgottenmemories63 Christians have done a lot of burning in their time, too. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was considered as a pagan symbol in the early Christian Roman Empire and was removed. Just one example.

[skeaneable]

yeah we lost much of our knowledge because of the burning down of the library.. if those books were saved we would have had in depth knowledge of the anteluvidian world,lost continents, more myths stories from the greeks,hell we would have determined if dragons and dinosaurs were one and the same creatures and even have blueprints to build a freakin Stargate!

[xtiml]

so I can t remeber which or what happened off hand, this library was burned down by rabid christians as they wiped out gnosticsm? or soemthing along that line

[renkaku]

those were the days when you become popular because of your brains

[Multi0703]

@renkaku

So sad and so true !

[renzcalais]

I always Want to watch this types of videos

[jmclell20]

What id do to have access to just a small portion of that Library, however id need an expert linguistic to decipher the texts.

[brittianica]

Is that Leonard Nemoy's voice I hear?!

[modder15]

Why can't I hold all this knowledge?

[Thunderfoot1289]

I'm new to all this(religion and history) but if there's one thing that I know that my mom told me and always remembered and kept in my heart is that god made things for a reason and that he loves us. I didn't used to believe in god cause I didn't know much about him or religion but ever since I meet an old friend who is johova whitness(don't know how to spell it) thought me a lot of things. He said he always had bible studies and went to church. Ive always doubted about god and thought that ev

[Thunderfoot1289]

@southtarnation oh i never finishes with my past comment but here it is, my friend told me something very important that i never forgot. i ask him,"do you ever doubt the bible when you study" he said no never. other than that i forgot the rest. now speaking of your comment what exactly do you mean?

[MrTwatmma]

@Thunderfoot1289 so you beleive in god because your mum told you he loves you. Thats a poor reason to believe in him. Not saying you shouldn't but don't just listen to one person. 

[MarkArandjus]

Wait a second... DAT VOICE :O

Nimoy!

[Joelomite]

Excellent documentary! Just how MANY of these did Leonard Nimoy narrate??

[brsjakpelaz]

Hahahahah The Draizer teory

[brsjakpelaz]

Come to Macedonia to see are we, greeks(gipsys) or Macedonians (White people)

[sirgpap]

I thought you were slavs, pretty much like most of the Balkans apart from Greeks

[brsjakpelaz]

@sirgpap Exactly proto slavs = White people of the world :)

[theMCdrux]

We would be colonizing the universe if this library had not been destroyed. It took humanity over a thousand years to rediscover all of this knowledge.

[BehelitOutlaw]

@theMCdrux said Athene

[theMCdrux]

@BehelitOutlaw yup :D fking love athene :))

[Angecide]

great loss of humanity =(

[Gilari]

Is anyone else super excited that this documentary is narrated by Spock??

[scottieman2]

This is very interesting!!

[kimokamal5]

Almost all of the great minds and thinkers of ancient Greece have been to Egypt early in their lives to learn from the Egyptians the knowledge that no one knew anything about at that time.The Greeks took that knowledge and added to it.That ancient knowledge almost died out when the barbarians of Europe destroyed the Roman empire but the ancient Muslim Arabs translated all the Latin and Greek books they found and added a lot to it and preserved it for posterity,thats the only good thing they did.

[WilliesWarriorPoets]

"He was a warrior, and also a poet"

[JosephCee]

the greeks were known homosexuals but no one ever seems to even care enough to mention it, but whenever king james comes up, the king james who authorized the translation of the bible in 1611, everyone seems to make a huge deal that he was a homosexual. so why is that king james is attacked and discredited for being a homosexual but alexander, plato, socrates etc are not?? though its absolutely not even true that king james was gay.

[kimokamal5]

@JosephCee who cares if anyone was gay or not??!! all we care about is the great things they did.

[goldensassenach]

Now is when you need the hateful quran quoters,they can tell you muslims destroyed the many great libraries.They proudly threw all books into the Nile and Euphrates to erase history and rewrite it as their own.

In India they recently burned 500 yr old historical scrolls and are revising the local records to include worship of Allah.

[kingofmilwaukee]

Anyone who likes this MUST watch the Carl Sagan 10min video on this.

[GordosMama1111]

@kingofmilwaukee i will watch anything with Sagan involved!

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[KumarZimmerman08]

What a shame :( could you imagine what knowledge we have lost.

[Severe777]

Oh shit... I didn't know the Library was in Egypt... thought it was in Greece haha. I learned something new. :)

[martingeorgia]

nessuno non parla del aerodromo scoperto in egipt vicino a queste due piramide de orologio solare che misurava un anno solare in quelli tempi

[martingeorgia]

esiste un altra Library in egipt tra piramida defaraoni tutancamon e keops ma americani lo sano soltanto che non fanno publico perche li esistono dei documenti su la razza umana su la terra.

[dltanner99]

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[unapologeticmind]

The definitive death-blow to the library in Alexandria was when the Arabs suppressed use of Greek language in Alexandria and the eastern Mediterranean. After that, anything that wasn't "translated" into Arabic was simply doomed to perish since the Greek texts would no longer be read and copied as they had been for the previous 1000 years...

[virgoeyes]

I think our civilization would have been more advanced if the library hadn't burnt down. I mean they were already pretty advanced and we sort of had to rethink maths and science etc...

[lifes40123]

@virgoeyes only in the western world... blame germanic barbarians and mongolian nomads for destroying roman empire and china

[HistoryLover1550]

It would've been cool to have lived and worked in Alexandria's famous Library 2,000 years ago.

[Standuble]

@HistoryLover1550 If I had a time machine I would go back to that time and spend a few years in the library. Maybe take a few hundred thousand digital photographs of everything that was lost too :)

[HistoryLover1550]

@Standuble Me too, I would also like to maybe observe Aristarchus, Ptolemy, Hypatia or even Archimedes teaching and performing experiments if I went too.

[mrnoni6221]

thx for the info dude very intresting

[Gr8GuitarRalph]

Spock! whaha i didn't know he did voices for documentaries

[calvingmail]

wow this is a great episode.

[lordenija]

Aleksandar veliki Karanovic? Greek?

[Zachdudeio2]

Histroy channel now sucks with the stupid 'reality' shows like ice truckers, and those pawn assholes. Thanks for some actual history. i loved watching this when I was younger

[HistoryLover1550]

@Zachdudeio2 I agree, Ancient and History's mysteries have and always will be my fave shows. I've been a huge fan of Ancient Egyptian and Hellenistic civilization since I was a kid myself.

[hommedterre]

There are two piece of information that the narrator state that are not quite accurate. First that Alexander built Alexandria for military purposes. This is inaccurate as his reason for founding Alexandria was basically for purpose of commerce. Second, Alexander's tutor, the philosopher Aristotle was not Macedonian (as the narrator claims). He was from Stagira and his father Nicomachus was court physician to Alexander's grandfather King Amyntas III.

[Zachdudeio2]

@hommedterre source? can't find that anywhere.

[hommedterre]

@Zachdudeio2 Hi....as to Alexandria being built for reasons of commerce(as in it would prosper-materiallly) may I refer you to book 3 of Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander (the Selincourt translation). As for Aristotle's orgin and genealogy  please see the book "Who's who in the Age of Alexander the Great" by the historian Waldemar Heckel. These are quite interesting. Hope this helps.

[Zachdudeio2]

@hommedterre thanks, ill look more into it.

[ihateolbermann]

spock is that you

[eternal0egypt]

Thank you for sharing this with us. I am following you now.

[soggy9]

u just earned yourself a subscription. congratz.

[Ancientvine]

This is great...thanks for posting. This info is a great resource for my upcoming project ...the 3d reconstruction of Alexandria!

[ModernPharaoh77]

Very nice, thanks