Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

RESEARCHERS who claim to have discovered a “lost city” deep below the pyramids now believe it could be the site of the ...

Over the weekend, three Italian researchers looking in to the Giza necropolis - Professor Corrado Malanga and Filippo Biondi ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death, it was ...

They hail from an ancient library in the Roman city of Herculaneum and, as a result of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 79 CE, were fossilized into carbon and are incredibly fragile, per the competition ...

Inside a specially built, temperature controlled room at Hereford Cathedral, hundreds of medieval manuscripts sit chained to their shelves, exactly as they did centuries ago. We explore how maple ...

but by an ancient library in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, circa 283 BC? Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge.

a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have been the first such ...

The Hall of Records is an ancient library, rumoured to exist underground near the Great Sphinx of Giza - where the pyramids also sit. The story originates from the American Edgar Cayce ...