The Egyptian parliament received on Saturday an urgent letter from the government denying as baseless reports that Israel has contributed financially to building the Library of Alexandria.

Rome turned Egypt into a colony after her death ... Christian mobs played some part in the destruction of the Library of Alexandria; the exact causes and dates of assaults on the library are ...

Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge. Established by an exiled Athenian statesman the “universal library” of ...

By the time Napoleon invaded Egypt, in 1798, Alexandria had become a humble Ottoman port. How was the Great Library of Alexandria destroyed? Of all the Library's possible fates, the truth is ...