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Check out these Ancient LOST Libraries And MYSTERIOUS Contents! From the legendary library of alexandria to amazing forgotten libraries in ancient egypt, this list of biggest libraries in history will amaze you!

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8. THE HANLIN ACADEMY
In the year 1900, several centuries’ worth of materials were lost from the Hanlin Academy, which was home to one of China’s greatest libraries, courtesy of the Boxer Rebellion. Located in Peking, or modern-day Beijing, the Hanlin Academy was once a key center of learning. At the library, there was an 11,000-volume encyclopedia detailing hundreds of years of Chinese history.

7. ARISTOTLE’S LIBRARY
After moving to Athens in 335 BC, Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy at the Lyceum, a temple that was dedicated to the god Apollo Lyceus. There, he gathered a large inventory of literature, and thus became historically known as the first book collector.

6. THE LIBRARY OF PERGAMUM
Sometime during the third century BC, a library was constructed in the ancient Greek city of Anatolia, where the present-day Turkish town of Bergama is located. It was situated at the northern end of the Acropolis and was built by Eumenes II.

5. THE IMPERIAL LIBRARY OF CONSTANTINOPLE
Modern-day Istanbul has been known by various names throughout history, including Byzantium and Constantinople, and was once the capital of the Byzantine Empire. This historic city also once housed the last of the ancient world’s great libraries. For nearly 1,000 years after the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the Imperial Library of Constantinople housed an abundance of written knowledge from the ancient Greek and Roman world.

4. THE BIBLIOTHECA CORVINIANA
The Bibliotheca Corviniana collection was compiled in Buda Castle during the Renaissance period by Matthias Corvinus, who was king of Hungary from 1458 to 1490 and one of the most powerful rulers of the age. (Before Buda and Pest came together).

3. MAYA CODICES
From the third century BC until the arrival of the Spanish in Central America, the Mayans used their own written language. They kept detailed cultural, historical, and astronomical records in books, or codices, made from bark-paper. According to archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni, the astronomical data in the codices was used for setting dates for rituals.

2. NALANDA
Nalanda was a large Buddhist monastery and university located in the ancient kingdom of Magadha, the location of the present-day northeastern Indian city of Bihar. It was started in the fifth century and thrived for around 700 years as a major learning center that attracted scholars from all around, including Tibet, China, Greece, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Persia, and contained advanced works on topics such as mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, and anatomy.

1. THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
The library of Alexandria is, perhaps, history’s most well-known long lost library, despite little being known about it or what happened to it. It was once the largest library of the ancient world full of treasures. It contained works by the greatest minds of antiquity such as Homer, Plato, Socrates, and more.

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Check out the Biggest UNSOLVED Mysteries Surrounding The Sphinx! From unexplained facts like the missing nose to other bizarre egyptian discoveries, this top 10 list of mysterious facts about the sphinx will amaze you!

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10. Who Built It?
For being one of the oldest monuments in the world, the Sphinx is still full of riddles. With such uncertainty about its age and purpose, there’s still a great deal of debate about who exactly was responsible for the original construction of the Great Sphinx. For thousands of years much of the Sphinx lay buried underneath the sand, with just the head sticking out.

9. Is it complete?
The Great Sphinx is 240 feet long from paw to tail, 66.31 feet tall, and 62 feet wide and was carved from a single mass of limestone. but is it actually complete? Discoveries found in the area around the structure imply that its builders left in a hurry, and may have had much grander plans for it.

8. The Sphinx Temples
The Sphinx has two temples associated with it, one that's directly in front of it that has been traced back to the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, and one that's to the northeast of the structure that is linked with the New Kingdom. The Old Kingdom temple was built from the same limestone blocks as the Sphinx itself, which many people think suggests the entire complex, including the valley temple of Khafre, was built at the same time.

7. Who Does It Depict?
While the structure itself is commonly referred to as a sphinx, the face is thought to be a representation of an actual person, but their identity is not known for sure. Most Egyptologists think it’s the face of Khafre, the pharaoh I already mentioned. There are, though, no inscriptions to confirm this, nor is there any record of its construction…

6. The Beard
You may be surprised to hear that The Sphinx once had a beard! Due to erosion, it eventually had to be removed. The remains of this beard can be seen in the British Museum and the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo, but there are some that believe it wasn't an original feature of the statue.

5. When Was It Built?
Even though it seems as if the Sphinx was built at a similar time to the surrounding structures, there’s still great debate about its origins. One of the strangest pieces of evidence that’s raised questions is the way that the stone on the Sphinx has signs of erosion that appears to have been caused by water, as opposed to wind and sand. This is unique to the Sphinx, and not seen on any other structures on the plateau.

4. The Missing Nose
When you look at the Sphinx, there’s one feature that stands out the most… its missing nose. There have been a number of theories about what happened, and you’ve probably heard the story that it was destroyed by a cannonball fired by one of Napoleon’s soldiers. The problem is, there are a series of sketches of the Sphinx that were made before the time of Napoleon, and these too show the statue without a nose, so the popular legend is disproven.

3. It’s not a Sphinx
Even though we refer to the Great Sphinx of Giza as being a Sphinx, that’s not entirely correct. It’s actually only relatively recently it has been known by this name. It used to be called the ‘statue of the very great Khepri’ by ancient Egyptians and, later on, the ‘Horem-Akhet’, which means the ‘Horus of the Horizon’. Medieval Egyptians called it various names including ‘balhib’ and ‘bilhaw’… which leaves an important question… what exactly is it?

2. Astronomical Purposes
As with many ancient monuments, there are suspicions that the Great Sphinx was built for purposes beyond simply as a work of art, and there are many who think it actually has astronomical uses.

1. The Secret Passageways
There have been, for a long time, stories and legends that there are secret passageways underneath and inside the Great Sphinx. Scans of the region have found anomalies that could be tunnels or natural phenomena, and in 1995, workers renovating a nearby parking garage found a network of tunnels that led further underground towards the direction of the Sphinx.

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