The Library of Alexandria became the ancient world’s greatest symbol of learning, a place built to gather writings from ...

Explore The Lost Libraries of Antiquity beyond Alexandria. Discover forgotten repositories like Ashurbanipal's and Pergamum's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the ...

In October 1731, a fire at London’s Ashburnham House destroyed portions of the Old Royal Library and the Cotton library. Fortunately, the Old Royal Library’s most precious object, the Codex ...

The fabled Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous structures of the ancient world, up there with the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and other architectural wonders ...

Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. Ch. 1. Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D. T. Potts ; Ch. 2. Alexandria : ...

Five men were arrested at the Alexandria Library on Queen Street on Aug. 21, 1939, because they defied the exclusion of black people. (Courtesy Alexandria Black History Museum) The 81st anniversary of ...

Some ancient cities that have survived to modern day are so wrapped in mythology that it is hardly worth the time to consider whether their origin stories are founded in reality. The origin story of ...

Maktabat al-Iskandariya stands along the seaside Corniche in the El Shatby district of Alexandria, close to the Eastern Harbour and not far from Alexandria University’s main campus; it is reached by ...