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 Alexandria Library is hosting a black family reunion in hopes of collecting documents and photos to fill gaps in documented history of the city's Black families.

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.

In ancient world the Library at Alexandria, Egypt was the meeting place where philosophical, spiritual, and cosmological teachings met to create a vital cultural environment. But the Library ...

And so, in 283 BCE, the great library at Alexandria was born. Over decades, its librarians and scholars packed it with hundreds of thousands of scrolls.

Alexandria, steeped in history, seeks to recover its Black community’s past The Virginia town’s first Black Family Reunion sought photos and artifacts to expand the library’s collections and ...

The Robert Robinson Library closed in 1962, and today, it is the home of the Alexandria Black History Museum. The museum is the first site totally devoted to the city's African-American history.

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 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 ...