Re: R: Moonwalk Tape Misplaced, NASA Says

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 8/19/06, Cornali Remo <Remo.Cornali () rcs it> wrote:
> > > The worst act of vandalism since the Vandals deleted Rome.
> >
> >
> > ..Since the Romans burned the Library of Alexandria...
>
> According to
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/07/08/ancient-egyptian-mp3ers/
> [The need for a good backup strategy also is highlighted by the travails
> of the old Library.  In 47 BC part of the collection caught fire
> accidentally because Julius Caesar was out in the adjacent harbor
> burning Cleopatra's ships.  In AD 389 more books were destroyed because
> they were housed in the Temple of Serapis, a building that fell victim
> to a Christian assault on pagan monuments.  Singh writes about the final
> destruction, which occurred after the Arab conquest of Egypt:  "Then in
> 642 a Moslem attack succeeded where the Christians had failed.  When
> asked what should be done with the Library, the victorious Caliph Omar
> commanded that those books that were contrary to the Koran should be
> destroyed.  Furthermore, those books that conformed to the Koran were
> superfluous and they too must be destroyed.  The manuscripts were used
> to stoke the furnaces which heated the public baths and Greek
> mathematics went up in smoke."]
>
> Ciao!
>         Remo


see what a wonderful world we have when christians and muslims work together? =P
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