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 ...

The Great Library of Alexandria was once the most famous center of learning in the ancient world. But what became of it? In this episode, we explore the final chapter of the library’s history—what ...

“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 ...

It has been a mere 2,000 years since this city’s great beacon of knowledge and learning -- its ancient library -- suffered one of history’s most famous fires. For a city with an eternal memory and the ...

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 ...

Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt's absorption into Greco-Roman ...