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You just had to remind me of the Library of Alexandria, didn't you? Sigh ... ;)
Indeed. The one small comfort I take, is that many of the scrolls had already been removed before the burning. And hey, since you are committed, let's take that time machine project off the back burner, solve the problem, and go back and retrieve those lost scrolls.
It's my understanding that only a small section burned fully but was later rebuilt. The real cause of the fall was a couple hundred years of misuse and then conquest of course. By the end though there were many other libraries so at least some of the texts were saved.