The Library of Alexandria (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Sometime during the reign of Ptolemy I or Ptolemy II, the Egyptian state decided to build an institution dedicated to accumulating all human knowledge in the City of Alexandria. As the city grew, this institution grew along with it to become the greatest knowledge repository in the ancient world. …and then Julius Caesar burned it down. Maybe Learn more about the Library of Alexander, how it was created, and how it ended on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month ButcherBox Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free steak for a year and get $20 off." Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of everything everywhere daily.
0:04.0	Sometime during the rain of Ptolemy the first or Ptolemy the second,
0:11.0	the Egyptian state decided to build an institution dedicated to
0:13.8	accumulating all human knowledge in the city of Alexandria. As the city grew
0:18.4	this institution grew along with it to become the greatest knowledge repository
0:22.1	in the ancient world.
0:24.0	And then Julius Caesar burned it down.
0:26.0	Maybe.
0:27.0	Learn more about the Library of Alexandria,
0:29.0	how it was created, and how it ended,
0:31.0	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The Library of Alexandria was the best known Library in the Ancient world, but it certainly wasn't the first.
0:55.4	We know of at least one large collection of cuneiform Hittite tablets that was found in the
0:59.3	modern day Turkish city of Bois Kale.
1:01.9	There was also a large library located at the Academy of Gandhi Shopper in Western Iran.
1:07.0	It was an enormous collection of Persian, Indian, and Chinese text which may have numbered as
1:10.9	high as 400,000.
1:13.0	In fact, the Academy of Gandhi Shopper is so important
1:15.3	that I might do a future episode on it.
1:17.6	That being said, there weren't a lot of libraries.
1:20.4	The written word was still rare at this time. Everything had to be written or copied by hand.
1:25.0	Literacy was relatively rare and limited to only a few people.
1:29.0	Despite how long its civilization was around and its many great monuments, Egypt really wasn't a great
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