The famous library of Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the most important repositories of knowledge in the ancient world. Built in the fourth century B.C., it flourished for some six centuries, was ...

One of the great tragedies of ancient history, memorialized in myths and Hollywood film, is the burning of the great library at Alexandria. But the reality of the Library’s end was actually a ...

Nor does its Great Library, once the most extensive in the ancient world and part of a larger learning center called the Mouseion, or Alexandrian Museum. Upper estimates place the number of texts ...

Exactly why the ancient library burned is unclear. Today, we must remember that war is not the only way an Alexandria can be destroyed.

In ancient world the Library at Alexandria, Egypt was the meeting place where philosophical, spiritual, and cosmological teachings met to create a vital cultural environment. But the Library ...

A glance at the spring issue of The Wilson Quarterly: Alexandria’s new libraryThe new library in Alexandria, Egypt, is vast and ambitious, but it may never resonate with any of the power of the ...

While Julius Caesar’s troops reportedly destroyed a large portion of the library in 48 B.C., scholars cannot say with any certainty when the Library of Alexandria finally disappeared.