Such overt disgust for learning and librarians should be disqualifying for a board overseeing the state’s libraries, unless lighting the match for a modern-day Library of Alexandria was always ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and ... whatever remained of it was destroyed around 270 AD. Today, the modern Bibliotecha Alexandrina is a commemoration of the original ...

The modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina is near ... According to legend, the Septuagint was commissioned and created at the Library of Alexandria. Unsurprisingly, Alexandria became a magnet for scholars.