It’s a global tragedy. People from the entire world used the museum to research. One of the biggest losses: 50% of the world’s best preserved pterodactyls were there. Yes, from the entire known world. Paleontologists in the field are going crazy.
People have difficulty understanding the size of the loss. It was the 5th biggest museum in the world. The biggest in pre-Columbian archeology artifacts and research. But it was much more than just native or local culture. Entomology lost hundreds of thousands of specimens. The entire invertebrates library was lost. There are researchers that lost 40 years of work. A freaking Pompeii fresco was lost.
It’s on par with Alexandria’s fire. The world has lost so much knowledge the mind boggles at the scale.
