The Library of Alexandria was completely destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago leaving no physical trace behind – but its formative scholarship and cultural resonance endure.

The famous library of Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the most important repositories of knowledge in the ancient world. Built in the fourth century B.C., it flourished for some six centuries, was ...

The opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria ...

A glance at the spring issue of The Wilson Quarterly: Alexandria’s new libraryThe new library in Alexandria, Egypt, is vast and ambitious, but it may never resonate with any of the power of the ...

Julius Caesar set out to destroy the original Library of Alexandria: if only he could see the new resources the researchers have access to now. Written by Danny Palmer, Senior Writer April 8, 2016 ...

The Library of Alexandria’s collection also includes texts many in the Muslim world consider sacrilegious, such as books by Salman Rushdie, ...

Illustration of the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, from Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World (c.1882). Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.