The largest libraries of the ancient world weren’t mere book collections. They were centers of power, education, and survival ...

Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that's filled with a treasure trove of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at St. Catherine Monastery in South Sinai. The ceremony at the ...

A museum guard picks up boxes holding ancient manuscripts, which were partially damaged by Islamist rebels, at the Ahmed Baba Institute, or Ahmed Baba Centre for Documentation and Research, in ...

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 structure ...

Part of a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian. Even before there were bound books, there were libraries. In cities across the world, these temples of knowledge served not only as storehouses for clay tablets ...

CANTERBURY, England - Two of the world's great libraries - the Vatican Library in Rome and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University - have scanned and loaded the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Library of Celsus was a famous landmark in its time – and today. Myrsini Mamoli Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential ...

In this week’s issue, Daniel Mendelsohn writes about the Vatican Library (known to scholars as “the Vat”), which recently reopened after an extensive renovation and modernization. In his piece, ...

(The Conversation) — Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum has been part of my daily life for years. Parks and trails surrounding the center connect my neighborhood to the ...