Super interesting to think about! I love playing historical games and this would make such a cool setting. Imagine an alternate history game where the library survived and technology just took off. Someone needs to make this happen!

What if? More like what a load of ifs. It burned, get over it. We would've prolly just used the knowledge to accelerate our self-destruction anyways. Humans, lol.

From a medical standpoint, I'd say that the loss of ancient medical texts was a massive blow. But to be real, medieval folks were limited by more than just texts—it was superstition and the church's grip on knowledge too. But imagine if we had kept that info... Maybe we’d have figured out germ theory sooner, and the Black Plague wouldn’t have hit us so hard?

This just blows my mind 🤯 Imagine all the classic literature we could've had. There must've been soooo many plays, poems, and stories that we'd study in school instead of the same old stuff. I bet we'd have more epic tales than just Homer's works, or even earlier versions of the ones we think are 'original'.

Guys, you're flying too high on this what-if. Knowledge doesn't equal progress linearly. Just because you know something doesn't mean society will accept it or use it correctly. Also, moon landing in the 1800s is just... nah, I'm not buying that. So much needed to happen before we could even consider it.

It's certainly an interesting notion—that the survival of the Library could have significantly altered the course of human history. While it may be tempting to assume such a change would unequivocally be for the better, one must also consider the potential negatives. The acceleration of technological advancements in the hands of ancient empires could have led to devastating wars with more powerful weapons or tools of oppression. It's a double-edged sword, really.

yes pls to steam engines in antiquity! Imagine Rome with trains. That would be epic as heck. Though honestly, how much steam tech was actually in the library? A lot of what we lost is more on the cultural side i think.

The library's loss was catastrophic, but to jump to landing on the moon by the 1800s might be overshooting it a bit. Sure, we lost a great deal of knowledge, but there's more to technological development than just information. You need stable societies, resources, economic systems supporting innovation, and so on. All of those were in pretty short supply during the years the Library was burning.