Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Lost Volumes

"Rare Books" Section at the House of Wisdom

The rarest of the rare books from the East and West hemispheres housed in the Grand Library of Baghdad. The largest library in the world, and contained some of the oldest books ever written from all over the world. It's where the Persians kept the wisdom and successes from their history, including discoveries in science, medicine, astronomy and technology.

This place held books about numerous subjects we know nothing about, but possibly subjects we could never know about, such as extinct animals or plant-life (the Romans discovered a plant that worked so well as birth control they farmed it to extinction.
Baghdad was once the capital of the world for science and mathematics, who knows what greatness they had, stuff we;ll never know.

Damned shame the Mongols chucked every book into he Tigris river.

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