Alexandria

[Motoko.]

Are there clues to the knowledge of what we have now (astronomy, geography, geometry, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, and physics) that are comparable to the knowledge the Egyptians had? Did most of the invaluable information that was burned lost forever or did we recover most of it throughout human history?

[primexx]

there's no reason to think that we cannot ever rediscover something that people did a few thousand years ago, but it does mean that we lost a lot of progress spending all our time redoing what we could have just built upon. also: recorded history is lost.

[Hum]

No knowledge is truly 'lost' -- humans will eventually relearn whatever lessons and science needed. ;)

There is an underground chamber near one of the paws of the Sphinx -- perhaps it contains some of Alexandria's lost treasures.

When it is finally reopened, then we will know.

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Are there clues to the knowledge of what we have now (astronomy, geography, geometry, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, and physics) that are comparable to the knowledge the Egyptians had? Did most of the invaluable information that was burned lost forever or did we recover most of it throughout human history?

Alexandria was a Greek city ;) As for the level of scientific advancement, Europe probably caught up with it during the period of renaissance if not sooner. The historical records, however, are forever lost.

[mudslag]

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