Baghdad's Lost Library

Baghdad's House of Wisdom DESTROYED! 📚 Ink turned the Tigris BLACK. 🖤 Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258 and set humanity back? The Mongols breached the city and destroyed the legendary House of Wisdom. Hundreds of thousands of books were cast into the water or burned. We lost medical encyclopedias & original Greek texts forever. The Tigris River ran black for six months. 🤯 Learn more about this devastating loss of knowledge! #history #mystery #hiddenhistory#history #archaeologicalrevelations #ancientrelics