If you need assistance, please contact us at 202-466-1032 or help@chronicle.com. A glance at the spring issue of The Wilson Quarterly: Alexandria’s new library ...

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Greece continue with a video on the Library of Alexandria, as we ask what was lost ...

The greatest library ever assembled by the great civilizations of the ancient world—containing a vast ocean of knowledge now lost to us forever—was incinerated on a great pyre of papyrus.

The greatest library ever assembled by the great civilizations of the ancient world—containing a vast ocean of knowledge now lost to us forever—was incinerated on a great pyre of papyrus.

While Julius Caesar’s troops reportedly destroyed a large portion of the library in 48 B.C., scholars cannot say with any certainty when the Library of Alexandria finally disappeared.

Explore the historic charm of Alexandria, Egypt, with this stunning drone footage, offering an aerial view of the Mediterranean coast, its ancient landmarks, and the blend of modern and historical ...

Object Details Author MacLeod, Roy M Subject Alexandrian Library Contents Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. Ch. 1. Before Alexandria ...

About 300 years after the famed Library of Alexandria burned down in Egypt, another, less well-known repository of information met its end in a fiery blaze. An archive in the ancient Roman city of ...

The library in Alexandria, Egypt, was once a place of international learning. Euclid wrote geometry there. Archimedes studied math there. It's where the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew to ...