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What If We Never Lost Alexandria's Knowledge? | Story to Sleep

What if one of history's greatest tragedies never happened? What if the Library of Alexandria—ancient world's supreme knowledge center—survived intact into the modern era? In our timeline, the Library of Alexandria was damaged and eventually destroyed through fires, wars, and neglect between 48 BC and the 7th century AD. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable scrolls were lost—ancient mathematics, philosophy, science, literature, and wisdom accumulated over centuries, gone forever. But what if Julius Caesar had made a different decision in 48 BC? What if he chose to scuttle his ships rather than burn them, preventing the fire that began the Library's destruction? This video explores an alternate timeline where the Library of Alexandria survived, preserving the complete corpus of ancient learning and transmitting it intact through the medieval period into modernity. Video Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:10 The Fire That Never Was 00:20:01 The Roman Centuries 00:38:23 Alexandria Between Empires 00:53:18 Arabic Transmission 01:04:58 European Awakening 01:19:48 Renaissance Without Catastrophe 01:34:45 Scientific Revolution 01:47:41 Delayed Modernity