They lay in heaps until modern times when they were discovered again.
Thomas Jefferson sold his personal library to the U.S. Congress for $23,950 in 1815 to replace the collection at the Library of Congress after the library was burned down by the British in 1814.
Cuz the british were meanie faces
The greatest book burning in history occurred when over 300,000 volumes were burned at The Library of the University of Louvain. This happened during World War I.
It burned
It was burned
they burned
they were burned to the ground
it crashed and burned
it was burned
It got burned
it got burned down
it was burned to the ground