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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
Perhaps a good example/analogy to "lost books" might be a book (story, whatever) that Shakespear wrote and then lost.
Maybe it was no great loss back then (say it was an early work) but nowadays we'd love to have it, just to know more about the person writing the rest of what is now considered great works.
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An even better analogy would be to look at how many manuscripts and scrolls were lost when the Romans burned the great library at Alexandria in Egypt. And how many early Christian writings from the mid 1st C.E. through the late medieval period were destroyed by those who opposed to the beliefs presented in those writings. That is a lot of history that was lost.