Jeepers, Quix, I'm a little amazed by that statement. The Vatican wasn't even around when the great Library of Alexandria was burned. By Julius Caesar, no less, in 48 B.C....
Right.
I forget the route the materials purportedly took to reach the Vatican.
It was plausible. I just have never heard of any confirmation.
And I was certainly rusty on the timeline.
Certainly they did not go directly to a non-existent organization.
IIRC, the Roman government held them for a long time.
Then when Rome was somehow threatened, the materials were transferred to the Vatican . . . I think that’s how the story goes.