Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.
Explore the historic charm of Alexandria, Egypt, with this stunning drone footage, offering an aerial view of the ...
In the hills of Berkeley, Susan Filter and Peter Koch's colorful home is bursting with some 7,000 books and a passion for ...
The loss of Madlib's vinyl collection has been described by several observers as "the hip-hop version of the burning of the library of Alexandria". Several artists have shown their support for Madlib ...
What Alexandria presents to him is a record of history and of its erasure. No one even knows the location of Alexander’s tomb, or exactly what happened to the great library of Alexandria. Mr. Issa ...
It was around 250 BCE when Eratosthenes was a librarian in the famous library of Alexandria He discovered in his reading that there was a yearly festival in the town of Syene (modern Aswan) on June 20 ...
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 ...
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