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Where are talking about when it was supposedly burnt during the civil war with Caesar/Cleopatra? Or some other event?

> for hundreds of year > Truely heartbreaking to think about about all the information we could of gleaned about their worldview from the annotations they made on those works.

It’s heyday supposedly lasted ~100 years. It was unavoidable though because how unstable rhe ancient world was. Basically you had to have an extremely stable central authority willing to dedicate enough resources to it for hundreds of years for that to happen. While in reality libraries like this rarely survived for longer than a few generations. Decentralization seems to be a lot more sustainable longterm (e.g. 50 medieval monasteries instead of a single massive centralized library)