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Library of Alexandria Catastrophes

Fires during Caesar's siege of Alexandria destroyed vast holdings of Hellenistic knowledge, marking antiquity's most consequential loss of intellectual patrimony.

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The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the de facto national library of the United States. It also administers copyright law through the United States Copyright Office, and it houses the Congressional Research Service.

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