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The case for Caesar as the culprit rests on the agreement of several ancient writers that books burned in 48 BC.

Plutarch and Dio both use the word library, and Seneca's 40,000 books suggests a collection of real size went up in the war.

Bagnall, writing in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society in 2002, examined the evidence in his article Alexandria, Library of Dreams.

He calls the libraries and a murder mystery with a number of suspects, and lists Caesar, whose operations in 48 BC in the harbor of Alexandria are often blamed, alongside the emperors Caracalla, Aurelian, and Diocletian.

He reports that modern scholars have suspected Seneca's 40,000 to be an error for 400,000, a figure found in the late historian Erosius.

Bagnall reports signs of a consensus that the most likely date for major destruction of the palace library is 273, during Aurelian's recapture of Alexandria, while noting there is no direct ancient evidence for it.

The Serapeum, home to a separate collection, was destroyed in 391, and Bagnall says the stories of a caliph ordering the books burned in 642 originate centuries after the fact and are surely fiction.

Each suspect has its supporters in the long debate over who destroyed the Library of Alexandria.

The sidewalk that we are walking on is not what you think it is.

it is the ceiling to the underworld where you can clearly see that this is the case that the true foundation of the old world is below our feet new york city right now today has so much more going on under the street and has so much more than we can all physically see you can even see the lights coming up from underneath the city where we can go over to the new york public library a palace library in the middle of all of this where you no longer have to travel to italy to see this kind of architecture thank you to donkeys incorporated we have it here in the usa as well where they knocked this thing out in less than a year telling us that on may 23rd 1895 Bigelow agreed to create the New York Public Library.

The plan was hailed as an example of private philanthropy for the public good, of course.

Very nice.

And in a photo from over 120 years ago, this does not look like a brand new building.

It looks like it's been there for a very long time.

and just had the New York Public Library engraved into the top and stuck some flags out front as a symbol for their takeover.

So check out the inside of this place.

Yeah.

All right, well, let's talk a little bit about Moffitt Library.

One of the reasons that I wanted to speak to you is I saw Chancellor Lyon's Berkeley brief that talked about the reopening this fall, and we're speaking in the fall of 2026, of the Moffitt Library as kind of a crown jewel in the library system.

Tell us a little bit about how that reimagining of the library came about.

Yeah, I'd be delighted to.

It's such an exciting project and it's been a thrill to be a part of it.

So this is a reimagining of the undergraduate library.

And it was started about 10 years ago, I think, that they renovated the top two floors of the Moffitt Library, the fourth and fifth floors, to make them more open and more designed to encourage students to work together and to collaborate together.