I visited Cleopatra's Egypt… 50 BC 👑

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]This is Alexandria, 50 BC, the most advanced city on Earth right now, and Cleopatra is literally somewhere in this city today. That is the Great Library of Alexandria. Every book ever written is in there, 700,000 scrolls, and it is about to disappear from history forever.

[00:00:15]Alexandria was the richest city in the world, traders from every continent coming here, spices from India, silk from China, all right here. Ships from 30 different countries were docked here every single day. Alexandria controlled all Mediterranean trade. Whoever had this city had everything. The Pharos Lighthouse, 134 m tall, you could see it from 50 km away at sea, one of the seven wonders of the world. The most advanced city ever built, the library, the lighthouse, the knowledge, all of it gone within 100 years of this moment.

[00:00:45]All of it. Nobody knows what happened to the Great Library, it just disappeared from history. 700,000 scrolls, and nobody agrees on who destroyed it.

[00:00:53]Nobody.

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