Archimedes and Euclid worked on mathematics ... Christian mobs played some part in the destruction of the Library of Alexandria; the exact causes and dates of assaults on the library are still ...

Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...

Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge. Established by an exiled Athenian statesman the “universal library” of ...