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Quoted: Alexandra Schultz in National Geographic

“Romans went to some crazy lengths to prevent bookworms from eating their texts,” the assistant professor of classics says in one of several quotes from a National Geographic article about the mythic destruction of the ancient library of Alexandria by Candida Moss.

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"What Really Destroyed the Library of Alexandria? History loves a villain, but the culprit was likely something much more mundane".

by Candida Moss for the National Geographic Stones and Bone column. Published August 28, 2026.

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Lyra McMullen