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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5t6op5/facts_about_the_library_of_alexandria/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5t6op5/facts... > > I am curious about what knowledge was lost in the fire, > Probably next to nothing, and certainly nothing of importance was lost. Alexandria was hardly the only library in the world, and the libraries at Pergamum and later Rome herself rivaled Alexandria in scale. Antony replaced the losses of the fire during the Alexandrine War with copies made from the library at Pergamum, and libraries in gymnasia or simply founded for citizens abound during that period in the Greek world, they're in like literally every city of any size. > We do not lose texts because of catastrophic events that wipe out all copies of them. We lose texts because they stop being copied. Also check https://www.ancient.eu/article/207/what-happened-to-the-great-library-at-alexandria/ https://www.ancient.eu/article/207/what-happened-to-the-grea...