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Museum library was also destroyed. Jagger Library (partially) Cape Town: South Africa: 2021-04-18 Partially destroyed by the 2021 Table Mountain fire. [119] However, the library's fire detection systems stopped the destruction of the entire collection. [120]
Evidence is scant for all four fires, but the library was eventually destroyed. 48 BC – Library of Alexandria accidentally burned during siege by Julius Caesar. 272 – Library of Alexandria possibly burned during the occupation of Alexandria. 391 – Library of Alexandria possibly burned by order of Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
Very little is known about the Library of Alexandria during the time of the Roman Principate (27 BC – 284 AD). [82] The emperor Claudius (ruled 41–54 AD) is recorded to have built an addition onto the Library, [93] but it seems that the Library of Alexandria's general fortunes followed those of the city of Alexandria itself. [94]
The Serapeum of the Great Library was destroyed, possibly effecting the final destruction of the Library of Alexandria. [18] [19] The neoplatonist philosopher Hypatia was publicly murdered by a Christian mob. The Brucheum and Jewish quarters were desolate in the 5th century, and the central monuments, the Soma and Museum, fell
Muse statue, a common scholarly motif in the Hellenistic age.. The Mouseion of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Μουσεῖον τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας; Latin: Musaeum Alexandrinum), which arguably included the Library of Alexandria, [1] was an institution said to have been founded by Ptolemy I Soter and his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. [2]
A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived ...
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Two men walk past a building destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, Sept. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) On Sept. 2, 2004, a tropical depression formed off the coast of Africa.