The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the popular imagination continues to cling. The idea of a truly universal ...

In 48 B.C., Julius Caesar was engaged in a fierce battle for power against his arch rival Pompey. By this time, the Romans largely controlled Egypt, though the descendants of Ptolemy still ruled ...

2002: The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is officially dedicated in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. It is a conscious attempt, even down to its Latin name, to recreate the Royal Library of Alexandria, ...

An Egyptian library with a heritage dating back over 2,000 years is set to build a high performance supercomputer in order to help academics perform scientific research with far more power than their ...

The library is creating an archive of that transformation, collecting flyers, official documents, videos and so on. Serageldin notes that former president Hosni Mubarak was very involved in the ...

A Polish & Egyptian team of archaeologists are claiming to have found the original site of the Library of Alexandria, replete with large lecture halls capable of holding some 5,000 students. The ...

What was the Great Library of Alexandria? Ancient Alexandria was founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great. Alexander’s successor, Ptolemy I Soter, founded the library, which is believed to have also ...