In a letter published in The London Times, they warned that flooding now poses a "grave danger" to the site and its precious library of ancient manuscripts ... the water table it has caused ...

From the Citadel in Game of Thrones to the library of Kamar-Taj in Doctor Strange, there’s been a resurgence in popular culture of ancient books chained to their shelves. These chained libraries ...

“It’s effectively an ancient calculator,” says Li. The researchers suspect that officials used the multiplication table to calculate surface area of land, yields of crops and the amounts of ...

“If I could travel back into time,” Sagan told his viewers, it would be to the Library of Alexandria, because “all the knowledge in the ancient world was within those marble walls.

Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile's dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. Archaeologists discovered the epic ...

Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

The former World Bank vice-president is director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) -- Egypt's $220 million reimagining of the ancient world's most celebrated library, built on its historical ...

a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have been the first such ...

From the Citadel in Game of Thrones to the library of Kamar-Taj in Doctor Strange, there’s been a resurgence in popular culture of ancient books chained to their shelves. These chained libraries ...