as is the great library’s exact location. Even so, ancient Alexandria’s remains are perhaps being destroyed faster than they’re being discovered, because of real estate development.

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

Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge. Established by an exiled Athenian statesman the “universal library” of ...

Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...

Its Lighthouse, or Pharos, was one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, towering an estimated 350 feet above Alexandria ...

When Alexander the Great founded the port city ... For centuries Alexandria was the center of the Eastern Mediterranean. The library of the city was an encyclopedia built of stone, the lighthouse ...