When the Roman emperors adopted Christianity they saw in this great body of scientific knowledge and spiritual tradition a menace to the blind belief they demanded of their subjects. They destroyed the Alexandrian Library, and not content with burning books, they demolished all statuary, wherever found, that would give any inkling of the wisdom of the past. Of the Alexandrian volumes that escaped the ravages of Imperial Rome, the Mohammedans, equally as fanatical in their desire to preserve only the Bible and the Koran, made short work as they invaded westward
