Picture the Recipe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBtDzuikFw24LPsgGyW1AQ If you happen to like o→→Some of our favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0XuDegDqP10d4vrztQ0fVzNnTiQBEAA →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: Great question! For those not familiar, I’ll start with a little background on the subject. The Library of Alexandria was founded by either Ptolemy I or his son, Ptolemy II, sometime in the third century B.C. Libraries were nothing new to ancient civilizations, though places to keep etched clay tablets might not be what we would consider a proper library today. The initial goal of the Library of Alexandria was most likely to flaunt Egypt’s enormous wealth rather than provide a place for study and research, but of course the library transformed into something much more. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/the-mysterious-fate-of-the-library-of-alexandria/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/14417/Library-of-Alexandria http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2002/10/1016_021016_alexandria.html http://www.serageldin.com/ancient_Library.htm http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2233/what-happened-to-the-great-library-of-alexandria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CW_BibliotechaAlexandrina_Front.jpg http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/06/the-perniciously-persistent-myths-of-hypatia-and-the-great-library Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter#/media/File:Ptolemy_I_Soter_Louvre_Ma849.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_III_Euergetes#/media/File:Octadrachm_Ptolemy_III_BM_CMBMC103.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: