History

The Library of Alexandria wasn't destroyed in one dramatic fire

Popular history blames a single catastrophic blaze — Julius Caesar's troops, a mob in 391 CE, or Arab conquerors in 642 — for erasing the ancient world's greatest library. Modern historians instead describe centuries of gradual decline: funding cuts, wars, a 365 CE earthquake and tsunami, and slow institutional neglect, with no single event responsible.

— Standard classical and historical accounts (Plutarch, Strabo, Ammianus Marcellinus), Library of Alexandria

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