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:	post by Headbanging_Man at 2012-04-18 20:01:46

That is utter nonsense. There are no signs of wide literacy in ancient societies, and most likely the (maximum) 700,000 scrolls represented the works of tens of thousands of scholars, not millions. A lot of the scrolls were your typical Greek plays about gay cowboys eating pudding, hardly hidden or secretive knowledge. There is no real historical consensus about the destruction either; just as many works may have disappeared through the aging/degradation of the papyrus as any of the various apocryphal fires. There are at least 3 legends of the burning of the Library, and none of the 3 is based on empirical or concurrent sources. Did Caesar burn it in 48 BC, a Christian Patriarch in the 300's AD, or a Muslim in 640? How many buildings housed the collection, when was each destroyed, and how much of the collection was in them at the time of destruction? Would many of the scrolls have aged and disappeared over the course of 7+ centuries anyway? The answer to all these questions is: Who knows???

All of that aside, of course it was still NOT a crime against humanity, by technical definition, though the murder of 10 million plus European civilians pretty much fits the definition to a T.

Nice try though.

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