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The Library of Alexandria disappeared... and no one knows exactly how
The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important centers of knowledge in the ancient world. It is believed to have ...
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The last traces of the Great Library of Alexandria
The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world—but what, if anything, remains of ...
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 ...
“But libraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions; they cannot long survive violent assaults. A way of life was dying.” That quote is from Stephen Greenblatt’s book “The Swerve.” He’s ...
Suppose you wanted to read “”The Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War 1862-1865,”” a book that went out of print more than a century ago. Where would you go? You could try the ...
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