Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that's filled with a treasure trove of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at St. Catherine Monastery in South Sinai. The ceremony at the ...

The Great Library of Alexandria remains one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world. Founded during the ...

Buried beneath volcanic ash for centuries, the Villa of the Papyri preserved one of the ancient world’s greatest hidden ...

Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile's dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. Archaeologists discovered the epic structure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Library of Celsus was a famous landmark in its time – and today. Myrsini Mamoli Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential ...

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 loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not really be to blame. The 1876 painting Incendie Alexandrie by Hermann Goll ...

(The Conversation) — Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum has been part of my daily life for years. Parks and trails surrounding the center connect my neighborhood to the ...