>>21941166Seems pretty dubious tbhdesu. Couldn't they have looked at the books earlier then, if they were just sitting in Constantinople, which basically was the capital of western civilization until maybe the 1200s?
>nah gotta wait until the place burns down to carry off those ancient bewksCertainly better than the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
>just try imagine the damage this did to human progress and thoughtBasically made Egypt irrelevant overnight.
But I entirely admit there were multiple routes the Greek writings were preserved, the muslims doing their thing with them was just one. Some of the Greek manuscripts long predating that were only discovered later.
