The Great Library of Alexandria was the largest in the ancient world. Many of the works there were by the greatest Roman and Greek philosophers and writers, including Homer, Socrates, Plato and ...

Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt's absorption into Greco ...

The story of Greeks in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.

Illustration of the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, from Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World (c.1882). Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Over 2,300 years ago, people traveled from all over the region to study at the library at Alexandria, Egypt, the best-stocked facility of its age. Now a new library is set to open along the same ...

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.

No one even knows the location of Alexander’s tomb, or exactly what happened to the great library of Alexandria. Mr. Issa might have made even more of Alexandria’s supreme poet, Constantin Cavafy, who ...

But now, scientists warn that Alexandria is sinking into the sea thanks to rising sea levels. A new study shows that the 2,300-year-old port city is experiencing a 'dramatic surge' in building ...

The Great Library of Alexandria held the largest collection of books in the ancient world. Founded in the city built by Alexander the Great, the library’s mission was to bring together a copy of ...

Among the most tragic events in human cultural history was the destruction of works from the great library of Alexandria. Blamed on Julius Caesar as well as later Christian and Muslim zealots, the ...

THE Great Library of Alexandria burned down mysteriously. It was the largest library in the ancient world and contained the works of the greatest thinkers and writers. What was the Great Library of… ...