Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the ...

The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world, remembered as a center of learning, scholarship, and intellectual exchange. Founded in ancient Egypt, it ...

The fabled Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous structures of the ancient world, up there with the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and other architectural wonders ...

On the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, a mob led by Peter the Lector brutally murdered Hypatia, one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria. Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy One day on the ...

Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. Ch. 1. Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D. T. Potts ; Ch. 2. Alexandria : ...

Today is π Day! And one of the many interesting people involved in the many uses of this constant was Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek geographer who calculated the circumference of Earth. Eratosthenes ...

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The Ancient Alexandria Library Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen has just returned from Egypt, and over the next few weeks, she will be filing stories on climate change. While in Alexandria, ...

Polish archaeologists have unearthed 13 lecture halls believed to be the first traces ever found of ancient Egypt’s University of Alexandria, the head of the project said Wednesday. Subscribe to read ...

“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 ...