Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the ...

Alexandria, Egypt’s second biggest city and the capital of the country in ancient times, is famed for its rich history and glorious past. Traces of past glory remain standing today despite the ...

The first phase of the restoration of Alexandria’s Antoniadis Gardens, one of the oldest in the world, has recently concluded, writes Dina Al-Mahdy A historical monument listed in the Alexandria ...

Less than a year after the 1939 Library Sit-in was organized by Samuel Tucker Jr., the Robert H. Robinson Library opened on April 24, 1940, at the corner of Wythe and N. Alfred Street. The rushed ...

Ancient Greek scholarship, for instance, was indeed instrumental in developing science, but it was not inherently western.The Greek empire spanned much of the Mediterranean region and the Black Sea.

But now, scientists warn that Alexandria is sinking into the sea thanks to rising sea levels. A new study shows that the 2,300-year-old port city is experiencing a 'dramatic surge' in building ...

In recent weeks, the digital library dedicated to preserving the internet’s history has been under attack by the internet itself. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library based in California, was ...

The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...

In A.D. 415 Christian fanatics attacked and murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, claiming she was a heretic using black magic. Here’s the truth. A detail from Raphael’s 1509-1511 masterpiece ...

Founded in 1973 in central London, the British Library is one of the largest libraries in the world, containing around 200 million books. But which of the following can be found on its shelves. Is ...