What was lost when the legendary Library of Alexandria burned? In this episode of Kings and Generals, we explore the ...

Here’s how it works. 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 ...

The new maps reveal foundations of wharves ... as is the great library’s exact location. Even so, ancient Alexandria’s remains are perhaps being destroyed faster than they’re being ...

“If I could travel back into time,” Sagan told his viewers, it would be to the Library of Alexandria, because “all the knowledge in the ancient world was within those marble walls.

Ancient Alexandria was the seat of the Ptolemaic dynasty and home to the likes of Archimedes, Eratosthenes, and Euclid, and its library held “the riches of classical learning, accumulated over ...

Roman-era classrooms believed to be part of an ancient university connected to the famed library of Alexandria have been uncovered, Egypt's head of antiquities said yesterday. Zahi Hawass ...