Alexander the Great, one of the most famous conquerors in history, was born in 365 BC. At the age of 20, after the death of his father who was king of Macedonia, a region in the north of Greece, ...

A Quran, a Bible and a Microsoft manual were among the first books put on the shelves of a new library built not far from where Egyptian ruler Ptolemy I Soter's renowned original stood in antiquity.

When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms. The is ...