Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the ...

The new library in Alexandria, Egypt, is vast and ambitious, but it may never resonate with any of the power of the great library of old, writes Amy E. Schwartz, who covers cultural issues for The ...

The fabled Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous structures of the ancient world, up there with the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and other architectural wonders ...

The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world, known for its vast collection of knowledge. But what, if anything, remains of it today? In this video, we ...

It has been a mere 2,000 years since this city’s great beacon of knowledge and learning -- its ancient library -- suffered one of history’s most famous fires. For a city with an eternal memory and the ...

This video is no longer available. Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling ...

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It was a sweltering August day in 1939, and William "Buddy" Evans was face-to-face with a police officer in the Alexandria Free Library. Looking up from the pages of his book, the 19-year-old had one ...