Why Did Omar Burn Down The Alexandria Library?
Often when observing the human race, members of our online think tank have pondered the question; has the human race for gotten more than it has ever learned? And this is an interesting topic because so often we say that those who fail to understand their history are doomed to repeat it. One has to ask what Omar was thinking when he ordered the Alexandria ancient library burned to the ground? Why did he do it?
He said; “If the literature agrees with me, it is not needed; if it disagrees with me it is false” Thus it is not allowed and so the library and all the books were torched. Makes you sick just to think about it. All those books could have been digitized into the permanent human record forever.
It is amazing how truly unfortunate this event in human history was. Can you imagine how valuable that information might have been to modern human societies today? The burning of the Alexandria library was probably one of the most tragic events of the past periods of that era. One certainly hopes we do not make such an error in our present period. Wars tend to do these things. Even if you lose most of the people, the records are invaluable.
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