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HistoryThe Story of the Library of Alexandria Is Mostly a Legend, But the Lesson of Its Burning Is Still Crucial TodayThe opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria.
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