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 ...

The Library of Alexandria was completely destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago leaving no physical trace behind – but its formative scholarship and cultural resonance endure.

The opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria ...

The story of Greeks in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.

The Library of Alexandria’s collection also includes texts many in the Muslim world consider sacrilegious, such as books by Salman Rushdie, art books featuring nudes and books that discuss LGBT ...

The last historical references to the library’s contents meeting their final end come in stories about the events of 639 CE, when Arab troops under the rule of Caliph Omar conquered Alexandria.

Some attribute the carnage to none other than Julius Caesar before Cleopatra Re-reading Tom Stoppard’s wonderful play Arcadia last week, I stopped at the bit where one of the characters, the ...

The original library of Alexandria housed 500,000 scrolls, which made it a center of culture and scholarship from the third century B.C. into the early Christian era. The modern Bibliotheca aims ...