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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Libraries have served as guardians of knowledge for thousands of years, preserving ideas that might otherwise have disappeared forever. From handwritten clay tablets to modern digital archives, they ...

The chances of finding lost Ancient Greek literature are slim because none has so far been found in the Herculaneum library, though it would be thrilling. But there's real hope for more Latin ...

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 ...

Yang Hexiang, director of the Yunnan Provincial Library, introduces the digital ancient books the institute released on Dec ...

In October 1731, a fire at London’s Ashburnham House destroyed portions of the Old Royal Library and the Cotton library. Fortunately, the Old Royal Library’s most precious object, the Codex ...

“Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” says Robert Fowler, a classicist and the chair of the Herculaneum Society, a charity that tries to raise ...

(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 ...