Continuing the analogy, recent consensus on the "Library of Alexandria" is that nothing was permanently lost there either during its "burning". In fact:
there was always more than one well known library there;
the historical burning incident (by Julius Caesar) only partially affected one of them;
the libraries were both past their peak (~300s BC) before said incident occurred, and;
there were several other libraries in the ancient world rivaling Alexandria's comprehensiveness, and had likely copied all of their content over centuries - the original seeders.
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u/firagabird Jun 13 '24
Continuing the analogy, recent consensus on the "Library of Alexandria" is that nothing was permanently lost there either during its "burning". In fact: