The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world—but what, if anything, remains of it today? In this video, we explore the history of the library, what led ...

“But libraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions; they cannot long survive violent assaults. A way of life was dying.” That quote is from Stephen Greenblatt’s book “The Swerve.” He’s ...

It has been a mere 2,000 years since this city’s great beacon of knowledge and learning -- its ancient library -- suffered one of history’s most famous fires. For a city with an eternal memory and the ...

Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian ...

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