I’ve shifted movies to watch Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra a movie I love passionately. Taylor played that to the hilt
I can not be the only history buff who gets tearful at the burning of the library of Alexander
@Moxitude Yes, and for extra bawling, think of the sacking of the House of Wisdom during the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.
Quoth the Wikipedia: 'According to the writings of an eyewitness to the Siege, "So many books were thrown into the Tigris River that they formed a bridge that would support a man on horseback."'