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Kimmo Huosionmaa
When we are talking about the miracles of the antique, we always must ask one question: Why those things were miracles? In the city of Alexandria were two miracles, and the most well known of those things is The Great Library of Alexandria. This place is so unusual, that there must be something, what made it very special. The thing what makes it very interesting is that even the emperor of the Rome had the library card for that library.
Why the most powerful man in the Rome had that thing? Did he afraid that he couldn't lend the books from that library anymore? And if he afraid that, we must ask the next question: What was written in those books, what was in that library? And why the emperor didn't transfer the storages of the books to the city of Rome? Another thing, what makes this library so interesting, is that there were many more libraries in the city of Alexandria, so what made this particular library so "great"?
Of course, some writers have made the conclusions that there was the road to the "Salomon mining sites" or some oil rigs, but my opinion is that the ancient Romans didn't use oil except one thing. They might make the napalm or something like that by using the oil, but that thing didn't make any library "great". In that time, the mixture of olive-oil, alcohol, and saltpeter was easier to get than mineral oil. So the information, what was those papers in the library, must be very special.
There were, of course, the introductions how to build other miracles, like the Lighthouse of Alexandria or Hanging Gardens of Babylon. But there must be something, what the emperor could not transfer to the Rome. Something so personal and dangerous, that it must be hired from the closest people of the emperor. And maybe those things were the emperors family tree. The papers that were very important, when the emperor wanted the children.
Emperor himself was very high ranked nobleman of the Roman empire. And the secrets what those persons had, must be covered in the secret tunnels. And if the wrong woman married the emperor, would those secrets leaked to wrong people. That was the reason, why those family trees were so important. When the roman highest rank noble patricians were married, there was the risk, that there would be born handicapped person, if the children were made in the marriage, what have been made between family members.
Of course, there have been told the stories, that the emperor was left his testis to stored in the mercury, that there could be done the test-tube children, but those stories are probably more suitable for some thriller movies. In the Roman empire was very many secrets, what would never be uncovered, and one of those secrets is why even the emperor needed the library card to that particular library remains secret. But this text is made for thinking, why some library was a miracle?
Sources
http://www.aleph.se/Nada/Mage/Egypt/Alexandria.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
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