It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. “The universal library has been talked about for millennia,” Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, has said.

They’re burning the modern Library of Alexandria. That’s one way to describe the recent ruling of the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals against the Internet Archive (IA).

The Great Library of Alexandria would be the subject of an epic Hollywood movie. It was the grandest institution of learning in the ancient world and comprised of 700,000 scrolls, the equivalent ...

The library in Alexandria, Egypt, was once a place of international learning. Euclid wrote geometry there. Archimedes studied math there. It's where the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew to ...

Arweave is developing a permanent 'Library of Alexandria' of data and information storage on the ... More Getty In the age of censorship and control, social media posts can disappear in an instant ...

The original library of Alexandria housed 500,000 scrolls, which made it a center of culture and scholarship from the third century B.C. into the early Christian era. The modern Bibliotheca aims ...

Library at Admont Abbey, Austria. Imagno / Getty Images Classical libraries catered for the privileged classes, so the design and décor were lavish and often churchlike. The libraries of the 18 ...

Berkeley's Private Library of Alexandria A couple's home in the hills is bursting with some 7,000 books and a passion for print. By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt Published: Jan 27, 2025 Save Article ...