Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — The Alexandrian Library. [ARTICLE]

The Alexandrian Library.

The library at Alexandria suffered plunderings ou various occasions, but it remained practically intact until A. D. 650, when it was destroyed by the Saracens under orders of the Caliph Omar. Thus disappeared a noble collection that had endured some 930 years.