By the time Napoleon invaded Egypt, in 1798, Alexandria had become a humble Ottoman port. How was the Great Library of Alexandria destroyed? Of all the Library's possible fates, the truth is ...

Rome turned Egypt into a colony after her death ... Christian mobs played some part in the destruction of the Library of Alexandria; the exact causes and dates of assaults on the library are ...

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

The library of the city was an encyclopedia ... Like so many young people, however, Salah has considered leaving Alexandria and Egypt. Twelve years after the Arab Spring, a leaden mood hangs ...

Sat on the western edge of the Nile River delta, Egypt was founded around 331 ... earthquakes between 956 and 1303 AD. The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant ...

The Egyptian parliament received on Saturday an urgent letter from the government denying as baseless reports that Israel has contributed financially to building the Library of Alexandria.

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 ...

Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt, with over five million inhabitants. As a political centre in ancient times, the former location of the renowned ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and a ...

Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...