For the next four centuries the Library continued to accumulate books until in A.D. 389 it received the first of two fatal blows, both the result of religious bigotry. The Christian Emperor Theodosius ordered Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, to destroy all pagan monuments. Unfortunately when Cleopatra rebuilt and restocked the Library, she decided to house it in the Temple of Serapis, and so the Library became caught up in the destruction of icons and altars. The “pagan” scholars attempted to save six centuries’ worth of knowledge, but before they could do anything they were butchered by the
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