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It recently occurred to me that Constantinople was sacked by Venice, which was then looted by Napoleon during his Italian campaign…so a lot of the ancient treasures from Constantinople and Italy probably ended up in Napoleon’s hands.
Some things were given back after Waterloo, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the Louvre still has a lot of it.
He also brought a ton of treasures back from Egypt, which may have inspired Victoria and Albert to pursue exploration there, and in other ancient strongholds, like India.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and here’s how I think this transfer of Ancient Egyptian knowledge went down…and please note, this is just a theory. 😊
First, the Greeks started going down to Heliopolis (as far as I can tell Heliopolis and Baalbek were the major houses of ancient knowledge at this time) and studying with the Egyptian priests. This led to an explosion of new discoveries in Greece by early Greek philosophers (who were also scientists).
Alexander the Great, who was mentored by Aristotle, then conquered Egypt, which was under Persian rule at the time. He then went East, gathering more information from various cities in Persia that also held vast stores of ancient knowledge, like Babylon.
After this, the knowledge that was gathered was collected in the Library of Alexandria which was specifically built for this purpose.
Then, the Romans took notice. They were learning from the Greeks, who learned from the Egyptians, and eventually Caesar decided he wanted control of the knowledge for Rome.
Egypt was in a sibling civil war - Cleopatra vs her brother and husband, Ptolemy XII (both descended from Alexander’s general, Ptolemy, who took control over the Egyptian section of Alexander’s empire after he died).
Caesar rolls down there at the perfect time and has an affair, and a child with Cleopatra. He convinces Cleopatra that to be safe from enemy forces aligned with Ptolemy XII, she needs to get the most important scrolls out of Egypt, so they stage the fire and sneak the knowledge out of Egypt in the fog of war.
After this, Cleopatra goes to Rome with her child and is living there when Caesar is murdered.
Caesar leaves everything to Octavian, rather than Antony, which is huge. This seems to me like an intentional move to ensure Rome gets to keep the scrolls in case anything happens because Octavian did not like Cleopatra.
Octavian and Antony split the empire, and Antony gets Egypt and starts a relationship with Cleopatra.
But this won’t do because Egypt doesn’t have the scrolls anymore and Cleopatra certainly doesn’t want to admit she gave away Egypt’s most valuable treasure and source of power - its collection of knowledge.
Antony and Cleopatra go to war with Octavian to get the scrolls back, and lose. Octavian doesn’t want to get attacked by Egypt, so he just lets them continue thinking everything was burned in the fire.
After this, Roman engineering advances leaps and bounds - Octavian even built a temple at Baalbek.
This continues until one violent Roman emperor after another eventually lead to the destruction of Rome, and the knowledge goes underground where it is controlled by the few in the know.
It seems The Templars also went to Egypt and potentially gathered what remained of the scrolls as a side quest during the Crusades.
Napoleon gained this info for France when he ‘liberated Italy’ from the Austrians.
The Brits have it from all of the later British exploration in Egypt.
Istanbul probably has it because Constantinople was a capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
Germany likely got it it during WW2 when Mussolini retrieved Caligula’s pleasure barges from the bottom of Lake Nemi.
And The U.S. likely retrieved it as well via exploration and possible connections with Templars via Freemasons.
The problem was that the ability to read hieroglyphs was lost until the Rosetta Stone was found by Napoleon’s troops and translated by Champollion.
The Rosetta Stone solved one problem, but created a new one — anyone who could read hieroglyphs could translate this hidden knowledge…unless they kept the deeper meanings of hieroglyphs as described by Egyptologists like Budge, hidden.
This is why I think Budge’s dictionaries were cancelled and the knighted head of Egyptology for the British Museum’s work was largely discredited and remains out of print today.
There it is…this is how I think the transfer of Ancient Egyptian knowledge shook down.
What if the Vatican is hiding ancient texts from the Library of Alexandria in its secretive archives?
History tells us that Julius Caesar’s forces accidentally sparked a massive fire in Alexandria’s harbor in 48 BC during his civil war, which spread and damaged parts of the library.
Caesar was a brilliant strategist, though, and it’s hard to imagine him carelessly obliterating such a treasure trove of knowledge.
What if the fire wasn’t just an accident?
What if he orchestrated a theft to seize Egypt’s intellectual edge—knowledge being the true power behind their empire—and used the blaze as a clever cover-up?
Imagine those priceless scrolls smuggled back to Rome, fueling the empire’s golden age of engineering and innovation.
Over time, as Rome evolved into the heart of Christianity, could these documents have been quietly stashed away in what became the Vatican Archives, preserved (or suppressed) for reasons we can only guess?
Much of the collection may have survived or been rebuilt, as the library continued to function for centuries afterward, with further declines linked to invasions and decrees in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
Furthermore, we know ancient texts were often saved through meticulous recopying from fragile papyrus to more durable materials.
Yet official narratives claim the library’s remnants simply faded due to time and neglect.
But what if that “loss” was a myth?
What if the knowledge wasn’t destroyed at all—but deliberately relocated and hidden, waiting in the shadows of history?
As a side note, I think Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign may have largely been to find a way to translate the hieroglyphic documents he retrieved after he liberated Italy.
There are ‘rumors’ he asked to see everything from The Templars held by The Vatican. He then supposedly made copies that are likely now in The Louvre. However, if a bunch of these documents were in hieroglyphics, no one could read them because the ability to translate Ancient Egyptian had been lost.
Next thing we know, Napoleon heads to Egypt and returns with The Rosetta Stone. Voilà.
The Louvre had ~35k works of art on display, and ~580k works of art in the vault.
615k priceless works of art. How could someone move all of that art not to mention the statues? Not to mention, who has enough space to store that amount of priceless art safely?
If it was something small — like books, scrolls, or jewels, that would be different. But some of these items are huge.
My guess is everything is going in the vault…
@CoVet_81@GenXTalks1 Everyone would freak out if something like this was made today. A lot of classic SNL couldn’t get made today. I was looking at some old clips recently and it really hit home that I could get reemed for even reposting some of those old skits.
Them: There’s no evidence of an advanced pre-diluvian civilization.
Me: How do you know the evidence isn’t hidden in a museum vault somewhere?
There’s over 200 million artifacts in the UK and Wales alone and most of it is locked away in the vaults. Why?
95-99% of many museum art and artifact collections are locked in vaults where they are rarely seen by the public.
Why?
And isn’t it interesting that many of our most advanced nations also have huge art collections in their vaults?
The British Museum has around 50k works of art on display and 8 million works of art in the vault.
There are 8 million museum worthy works of art in this museum alone that barely anyone sees.
What are these priceless works of art?
Why don’t we get to see them?
They closed the Louvre.
Over 35k works of art on display, and around 580k works of art in the vault.
615k priceless works of art.
My guess is everything is going in the vault…
What are they hiding?
🇫🇷 Chers visiteurs, en raison d’un mouvement social étudiant, le musée est fermé pour le moment. Nous vous prions de nous excuser de la gêne occasionnée.
🌍Dear visitors, due to student strikes the museum is currently closed. We apologise for the inconvenience.