Too soon?

You just had to remind me of the Library of Alexandria, didn't you? Sigh ... ;)

Indeed. The one small comfort I take, is that many of the scrolls had already been removed before the burning. And hey, since you are committed, let's take that time machine project off the back burner, solve the problem, and go back and retrieve those lost scrolls.
- It's my understanding that only a small section burned fully but was later rebuilt. The real cause of the fall was a couple hundred years of misuse and then conquest of course. By the end though there were many other libraries so at least some of the texts were saved.
While we're on reminders, how about one for The Game? ;)
- :(

I am more disappointed that I never got to visit the hanging gardens of Babylon.

I used to shoot pool at a pool hall called Babylon. Close enough.

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Nice

Shit's still going in my playthrough. Don't put your wonders near the coast, duh.

You suggesting the sea set fire to the library?
- boat archers are op

I'm too warm

Nice

I'm not even a big history buff and that made me upset.

I think it's just the loss of knowledge. It would be like if somehow Wikipedia broke today or something with zero backups.
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. By definition it's not a primary source of information. Anything on Wikipedia ~~comes~~ should come from a trustworthy primary source. So technically there should be zero loss of knowledge if Wikipedia is lost. Just access would be harder (but still overall easier than it was for an average person to gain access to the library of Alexandria).

[screaming]

Would’ve had more answers to our problems.

How could’ve the fire been prevented?

Sprinkler system
- I wish you performed another miracle to save us from this setback.

I don't know why people are so hung up about this. The amount of knowledge lost was very little to basically none. The express purpose of the Library of Alexandria was to COPY important works from around the known world. People would bring information from around the world to them, they would copy the work and the original would be returned. This meant that by definition for every piece of information there would be at least one copy at the time of recording. And because only important works were copied, it's likely a lot of copies existed. If the information was really pivotal, a lot of work would be based on it, so that's even more copies. Plus it wasn't the only place to do this, there were many more libraries around the ancient world that did the same thing. At the time it was burned, it had already been in decline for a while.

So for all the people going on about how our world would look like if it hadn't been lost, the answer is exactly the same. It had basically zero impact.

I don’t know why people are so hung up about this. The amount of knowledge lost was very little to basically none. The express purpose of the Library of Alexandria was to COPY important works from around the known world. People would bring information from around the world to them, they would copy the work and the original would be returned. This meant that by definition for every piece of information there would be at least one copy at the time of recording. And because only important works were copied, it’s likely a lot of copies existed. If the information was really pivotal, a lot of work would be based on it, so that’s even more copies.

Holy fucking shit I don't even know where to start.
- The influence of the Library declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning and exiling himself to Cyprus. Many other scholars, including Dionysius Thrax and Apollodorus of Athens, fled to other cities, where they continued teaching and conducting scholarship. The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter. The geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC, and the prodigious scholarly output of Didymus Chalcenterus in Alexandria from this period indicates that he had access to at least some of the Library's resources.
  
  The mythos around the Library greatly exaggerates its importance, and the impacts of the fire. By the time they killed Hypatia (and this was a political struggle, not a religious one as the internet likes to pretend), it was not in its prime.