The Great Library of Alexandria has long been regarded as one of the greatest centers of learning in the ancient world.

Luke Caverns dives into the archaeological site of Kom El Dikka, a sliver of the city of ancient Alexandria - a site unlike ...

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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 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 ...

On the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, a mob led by Peter the Lector brutally murdered Hypatia, one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria. Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy One day on the ...

Today is π Day! And one of the many interesting people involved in the many uses of this constant was Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek geographer who calculated the circumference of Earth. Eratosthenes ...

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Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. Ch. 1. Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D. T. Potts ; Ch. 2. Alexandria : ...

Audio Postcard: Artifacts of EgyptWeekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen has just returned from Egypt, and over the next few weeks, she will be filing stories on climate change. While in Alexandria, ...