Sunday, April 5, 2009

The Library at Alexandria Still Exists

The Library at Alexandria was renown as a repository for all the Western World's knowledge. Surely it had to be run by people with superior intellect. History records that several small fires occurred at the library before the last and final destructive fire. It would seem reasonable to assume that the people who laboriously copied and maintained the world's knowledge would have realized that papyrus manuscripts were not an ideal medium for preserving knowledge. Surely these learned people copied the manuscripts onto clay tablets, or some more durable other medium than papyrus. Additionally, these same librarians would have kept these "contingency copies" in a location that was not in the immediate vicinity of the old library. Therefore, I propose that somewhere near Alexandria there exists a cache of ancient knowledge that duplicates the original Library at Alexandria.

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