Another, who reportedly lost an account they had maintained for seven years, wrote, “I feel like my library of Alexandria has been burned down.” For creatives, Pinterest isn’t just for fun ...

Its Lighthouse, or Pharos, was one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, towering an estimated 350 feet above Alexandria's busy harbor, but it no longer stands. Nor does its Great Library ...

Ptolemy’s son added Alexandria’s famous library to the Mouseion complex. The first chief of the library, Eratosthenes, measured the earth’s circumference to an accuracy within a few hundred ...

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 ...