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 ...

The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world—but what, if anything, remains of it today? In this video, we explore the history of the library, what led ...

The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important centers of knowledge in the ancient world. It is believed to have ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

The new library in Alexandria, Egypt, is vast and ambitious, but it may never resonate with any of the power of the great library of old, writes Amy E. Schwartz, who covers cultural issues for The ...

It has been a mere 2,000 years since this city’s great beacon of knowledge and learning -- its ancient library -- suffered one of history’s most famous fires. For a city with an eternal memory and the ...

It was a sweltering August day in 1939, and William "Buddy" Evans was face-to-face with a police officer in the Alexandria Free Library. Looking up from the pages of his book, the 19-year-old had one ...

Woman at Main Reading Room Card Catalog, Library of Congress, circa 1930s. As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of ...