Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that's filled with a treasure trove of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at St. Catherine Monastery in South Sinai. The ceremony at the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the ...
Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile's dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. Archaeologists discovered the epic structure ...
The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world, remembered as a center of ...
The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not really be to blame. The 1876 painting Incendie Alexandrie by Hermann Goll ...
(The Conversation) — Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum has been part of my daily life for years. Parks and trails surrounding the center connect my neighborhood to the ...
An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up for auction at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of ...
Eighteenth-century workers in Herculaneum unearthed a unique Roman library preserved by the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. These ...
A 19th century illustration of the burning of the Library of Alexandria. A 19th century illustration of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.Heritage Images/Getty Images The opening episode of ...