The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the popular imagination continues to cling. The idea of a truly universal ...

In 48 B.C., Julius Caesar was engaged in a fierce battle for power against his arch rival Pompey. By this time, the Romans largely controlled Egypt, though the descendants of Ptolemy still ruled ...

An Egyptian library with a heritage dating back over 2,000 years is set to build a high performance supercomputer in order to help academics perform scientific research with far more power than their ...

The destruction of the Library of Alexandria may have erased centuries of science, philosophy, and history. No one knows ...

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 ...

What was the Great Library of Alexandria? Ancient Alexandria was founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great. Alexander’s successor, Ptolemy I Soter, founded the library, which is believed to have also ...

The library is creating an archive of that transformation, collecting flyers, official documents, videos and so on. Serageldin notes that former president Hosni Mubarak was very involved in the ...

Suppose you wanted to read “”The Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War 1862-1865,”” a book that went out of print more than a century ago. Where would you go? You could try the ...