Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

You might be aware of the Great Library of Alexandria? Started by Pharaoh, Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt around 250 B.C. (Before Carbon Fiber), it became the ancient world’s single greatest archive ...

What Alexandria presents to him is a record of history and of its erasure. No one even knows the location of Alexander’s tomb, or exactly what happened to the great library of Alexandria. Mr. Issa ...

Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...

The loss of Madlib's vinyl collection has been described by several observers as "the hip-hop version of the burning of the library of Alexandria". Several artists have shown their support for Madlib ...