While Julius Caesar’s troops reportedly destroyed a large portion of the library in 48 B.C., scholars cannot say with any certainty when the Library of Alexandria finally disappeared.

Eventually, the library had to hire experts to wade through the sea of bogus texts and identify genuine treasures. The web, our modern-day library of Alexandria, faces a similar problem.

Alexandria, steeped in history, seeks to recover its Black community’s past. The Virginia town’s first Black Family Reunion sought photos and artifacts to expand the library’s collections ...

Illustration of the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, from Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World (c.1882). Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R. G. Tanner -- Pt. 2. Scholarship in the alexandrian manner. Ch. 5. Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the ...