but by an ancient library in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, circa 283 BC? Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge.

This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...

At the dawn of the Common Era, the Egyptian city of Alexandria boasted the greatest library of the ancient world. It would last only until 30 BC, when Cleopatra had her fatal encounter with the ...

The modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina is near where the ancient Library once stood ... a route to India. By the time Napoleon invaded Egypt, in 1798, Alexandria had become a humble Ottoman port.

In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million ...

In the past 20 years, 280 buildings in this 2,300-year-old port city — known for being the birthplace of Cleopatra and the ancient home of the famed Library of Alexandria — have collapsed due ...