[A.J.Armitage]

It was during a Roman civil war. Julius Caesar's troops intentionally set fire to the waterfront area, and it spread into a citywide conflagration that happened to include the library.

(I've been using my tagline since before Calvin Locke's comment.)

[#3Fan]

It was during a Roman civil war. Julius Caesar's troops intentionally set fire to the waterfront area, and it spread into a citywide conflagration that happened to include the library.

So then our mainstream scientific community could be worse than the Romans. They intentionally destroy evidence whereas the Romans may not have intentionally burned the library. :^)