Destruction of History: A Book Monkey Presentation

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[Music] thank you welcome to the first book monkey presentation old books contain myriads of Secrets and archaics we have already delved into many of them but we're going to explore many more at the end of this video I'm going to tell you about an incredible thief in the huge cache of ancient text he was recently caught with so let's delve into the ancient worlds libraries and why so much has been lost the chain of custody on the knowledge that we possess today goes all the way back to ancient Sumer the libraries of new Pur ER Uruk these had many texts that later appeared in the libraries of Babylon the Temple of Naboo old Syria ebla in Syria ugurate nasos of minoan Fame in the Amorite libraries of Mari in Syria 700 BC of course the Temple of Karnak and Thebes the coffin and wall text the pyramid text and all the papri Azure benapel library of Nineveh which is now located in modern-day Iraq this was the 7th Century BC we have found tens of thousands of the texts that were in that Library the books of the ancient sybils are removed from the oracles and distributed to their lost to history at this exact same time then the Temple of Artemis and Ephesus it houses all these texts one of this is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World of course the Temple of Apollo at Delphi had a library and the Temple of Jupiter Optimus maximus in Rome but in 331 BC Alexander the Great burned the original copies of the ofeston Holy books of Iran written in the old Persian tongue 21 volumes that contained hundreds of thousands of verses and just after this a Chinese emperor in 221 BC had his soldiers burn every known book in China and all the scholars who were capable of writing were also burned alive the library of pergamum was built in the second century BCE had 200 000 texts it is located in modern-day turkey it was later looted by Anthony the lover of Cleopatra in 83 BC The Great Fire of Rome saw the burning of the library where the books of the Sybil had been kept by the Senate and in 48 BC the Library of Alexandria Egypt half a million texts are destroyed during the Roman conquest of Egypt then Caesar destroyed the libraries of The Druids kept in the sacred Hill of Alessia in 273 A.D the Romans destroyed the baruchium library at Alexandria and Diocletian had burned 200 000 Scrolls before that then in 476 the Library of Alexandria is again destroyed This Time by the Roman Emperor theodosius the first this is all done long before Islam entered the picture in 645 the Library of Alexandria is destroyed once more This Time by the Arab invasion of Egypt and about 7 30 the year 730 Leo of Byzantium ordered the destruction of 300 000 classical manuscripts and for 500 years the Dark Ages the preservation of historical texts maps and the classics was done in Syrian and Arabic as literacy throughout Europe was almost non-existent in 1204 during The Fourth Crusade the library of Constantinople is destroyed and a century later the papacy conspired to destroy and steal the books and maps of the night Templar about this time the great universities across Europe are founded in 1499 the library of the monastery of San Lorenzo in Florence Italy is destroyed by a fire and in 1527 the library of the Abbey of Clooney in France is destroyed during the French Wars of religion in 1561 the library of the University of salmanca in Spain is destroyed by fire and in 1689 the library of levor in Paris is destroyed in the year 1731 the library of escorial in Spain is destroyed by fire and in 1755 the Royal Library of Lisbon Portugal is destroyed during an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami equated as felt across the whole of Europe the ancient maps and books that survived these destructions often ended up in the hands of Freemasons Ross secretions and Illuminati in 1865 during the war between the states the library of the University of Alabama is destroyed by a fire in 1904 the Imperial library of King China is destroyed by fire and in 1918 during World War One the library of the University of luvane in Belgium is destroyed by German soldiers in the 1933 the library of the Academy of Athens in Greece is destroyed by fire in 1992 during the bhajanan war the national and University Library of bajna and herzer I believe is hers Herzegovina is destroyed by fire you guys know my central East takes an accident I'm not fixing to pronounce some of these words this is by far not a conclusive list there are several reasons why so few copies of books from the ancient and old world still exist today such as climate conditions natural disasters accidental destruction from war demolition repurposing old books by erasing the contents to write over them with new knowledge some are eaten by worms and termites censorship purges book burnings but the following federal court proceeding reveals that a lot of the missing and lost books of history may have had a calculated targeted fate in the Federal Criminal Case the United States versus spiegelman four Federal supplements second edition page 275 southern district of New York 1998. the opinion was written by honorable District Judge Kaplan who wrote great research libraries are repositories of our social cultural and scientific Heritage their rare books and manuscripts are vital to understanding the world and often are irreplaceable objects of study for Scholars who add to our knowledge of ourselves and our environment the defendant in this case stole hundreds of rare manuscripts and documents from the library of Columbia University spiegelman stole among other things these are listed in the Federal Criminal Case this guy spiegelman stole 17 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts dating from 1160 to 1550 A.D eight Arabic and Persian manuscripts dating from around 900 to 1887. 26 Medieval Renaissance and early modern documents dating from 1122 to 1789. spiegelman stole another 284 historical maps that dated from 1628 to 1891. spiegelman stole 26 presidential letters and documents dating from 1791 to 1918 including six George Washington letters four of them were written to John Jay eight letters from John Adams to William Tudor and 12 letters from other presidents including John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson 133 letters and documents from and relating to Thomas Edison dating from 1860 to 1903 including contracts patent assignments and correspondence concerning the development of the Telegraph and the expansion of the telegraph Network many of these items have not been recovered this is merely a single thief in the text stolen from a single University and it was published in a federal criminal case in 1998 only because this spiegelman guy got caught I'm bringing this to your attention because it's time that we consider that there are probably a whole network of these spiegelmans out there who have already stolen Priceless historical texts and maps and have either not been caught or not been reported and are probably not finished destroying these evidences of our history the archaic's position is that this is not an anomaly it is the norm the only unusual aspect is that a spiegelman actually got caught and tried in a criminal proceeding