The curious minds at Aperture revisit the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the haunting impact of lost knowledge.

The fabled Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous structures of the ancient world, up there with the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and other architectural wonders ...

Some even compared it to the burning of the library of Alexandria, the ancient Egyptian library once thought to be the world’s greatest archive of knowledge before it was raised to the ground.