The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...

The 19th annual Alexandria Film Festival released its 62 selections for the upcoming season to be shown at several venues around the area beginning Nov. 2 and continuing Nov. 7-9. Patti North, ...

The destruction of the Library of Alexandria may have erased centuries of science, philosophy, and history. No one knows exactly what was lost—but the possibilities are staggering.

East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sid Edwards says text messages circulating online are being taken out of context.

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St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, is known for its sacred peace, but is now preparing to open up ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

Five weeks after Fort Sumter, the official starting point of the war, Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves received the command to sail ...

Scores of artists and writers issued a call for museums, galleries, theaters, bookstores and libraries and other institutions ...

I keep thinking about the silence — not the silence of Gaza’s terrified citizens, but the hush that follows among those ...

Life moves quickly in the nation’s capital. But just across the Potomac, you can trade traffic for tranquility with these ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.