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 ...

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.

THE Great Library of Alexandria burned down mysteriously. It was the largest library in the ancient world and contained the works of the greatest thinkers and writers. What was the Great Library of… ...

While Julius Caesar’s troops reportedly destroyed a large portion of the library in 48 B.C., scholars cannot say with any certainty when the Library of Alexandria finally disappeared.