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There was thinking that Julius Caesar's order to set fire to Alexandria's harbor caused the Library to be burned, but not many people still belive that anymore. There is too much evidence that the Library still existed after the fire.
Many people think that since the Library consisted of several different locations [within the city], different parts of it were destroyed at different times. There is now a thinking that it was finally and completely destroyed by Christians who were ordered to destroy any and all pagan temples, in the fourth century. A lot of people now believe that that was the final end to the Library.
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