It's quite surprising how so many people miss this information. Look for the sources and redpill yourself on it.
The city of Rome alone had 28 public libraries, besides many private ones set by writers, priests and aristocrats like Lucullus (some of which were reported to have over 30.000 works on all sorts of subjects). Most cities in the Hellenistic world had a library building (and they had cities from Spain to Bactria and India) - just like many had forums, theatres, stadia, odeons and gymnasiums (where every Greek man exercised for about one hour every day) who were maintained either by the state or by charitable endownment. Philosophical schools were abound all across ancient Greece, with Epicurean and Stoic lodges being as prolific as mistery religions - and there were all sorts of other schools - mathematics, philology, theurgy, the big medical school at Pergamun (where Medicine was interlinked with the Gods and taught in a holistic way, the works of their great masters like Galen being preserved, sometimes by jewish doctors). The Library of the Serapeum alone (destroyed in 385) had so many scrolls, ancient writers estimated it from between 200.000 to 700.000, and the Library of Alexandria was even bigger and there were famously big librariES in Athens, Rhodes, Pergamon, Ephesus and Antioch (all, but one, destroyed by christians)
The first non-christian library opened in medieval Europe was done by Cosimo de Medici, during the Renaissance, in the 1400's. The church could have opened many libraries all across - but they never chose to, preferring to keep the "gentiles" away from all literature, even reading of the bible was forbidden. Books and ancient knowledge was seen as sinful, all literaly works were confined to monasteries and consisted of church propaganda on theology and history - mathematics was only kept to determine the date of Easter - even Hygiene was seen as sinful, with the only extent Roman Baths being in the East. They burned all books that did not follow the church doctrine - not just that, they didn't care, they burned entire libraries because these were not the words of God - thousands of fanatic monks, many of them jewish, coptic or arabic, coming out of the desert, where they lived ascetically, to destroy all public structures. We only have acess to texts from Arabic, Jewish and Persian sources which were only reached by Europeans after the Crusades. It's no "myth" that sandniggers kept these texts and translated them, they're not "advanced" because of it, it's just that Europeans were (((deliberatelly))) subject to terrorism and the destruction of their culture. I will try to post the sources when I find it, but I read an estimate that as much as 18.000 (!) libraries were burned just in the Roman Empire - and that was just part of the destruction christians did, they activelly destroyed or desecrated all statues they found (vandalized them or turned them into plaster) - the few ones we found were in ruined places. All Temples and ancient graves were caniballized and turned into churches when not outright destroyed - they even set up laws punishing people with DEATH for even looking at the ruins of ancient temples (and Judaism was the only recognized non-state religion).
And the Celts and others did not have libraries, the Druids, for instance, were forbidden to write down their teachings, as it would harm their memory and allow them to be deturped. The biggest crime of Christianity, perhaps, was the destruction of the Oral Legends and Skalds in Europe (who had to be kept in hiddance - in societies like the Jeaunes Floraix) - they deturped many of these stories as "devil worship", "goats in the forest", "evil dwarfs" and what not, writing false propaganda books (which they had the monopoly of doing) to defamate them and calling them supersitions - torturing and murdering people, mostly woman, who kept these traditions alive, even though many of these myths were in some form adopted by the church in the form of Saint Worship and what not (see pic related, you think this is some Middle-eastern abrahamic tradition with a fucking moon over there? There is no such thing as "monotheism" or "polytheism" - there is only (((one))) group of people intresting in others believing this distinction as anything more than different facets of the truth - and these people don't believe in it - it's a psy-op),or else the church would face complete irrelevance and foreigness among the local population. Our ancestors had knowledge of God and worshiped it, but it was taken from them by the (((Christians))) who started a "Dark Age" (and not just because of the collapse of the Roman Empire - that is a metaphysical term).
Sorry for the de-railing, but that is quite the purpose of the thread. I could talk more, but I think you get the point. Lurk moar, search this stuff yourself…