Hypatia is murdered in Alexandria 415

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walwyn sam, 02/23/2019 - 22:15
dimanche, March 15, 0415

In March 415 a mob in Alexandria, fired up by the Christian Bishop Cyril, ordered the mathematician, atronomer, and philosopher, Hypatia from her horse and drag her to a nearby church, stripped her naked and with shards of broken pottery flayed her skin from her flesh.1