Reply #121: That was a neat trick in 48 BC. [View All]

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"The ancient accounts by Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Orosius agree that Caesar accidentally burned the library down during his visit to Alexandria in 48 BC."

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"The library seems to have been maintained and continued in existence until its contents were largely lost during the taking of the city by the Emperor Aurelian (270–275), who was suppressing a revolt by Queen Zenobia of Palmyra (ruled Egypt AD 269–274)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Destruction

Perhaps you're confusing it with the destruction of the Alexandrian Serapeum.