When America lets freedom ring with Fourth of July fireworks, our frightened four-legged friends often run for cover. Case in point: July 5 is the busiest day of the year for local shelters, which are ...

Image credits: Associated Press in Cairo #2 Ancient Scrolls Reveal That Budget Cuts, Not Fire, Destroyed The Library Of Alexandria Contrary to popular belief that a fire, perhaps ordered by Julius ...

Contrary to popular belief that a fire, perhaps ordered by Julius Caesar, destroyed the Royal Library of Alexandria, recently discovered scrolls suggest a more gradual decline due to budget cuts.

Early voting opened on May 2 at the Alexandria Office of Voter Registration & Elections. Starting on Friday, June 6, the Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Library at 5005 Duke St. will become an ...

Cairo - Archaeologists have uncovered the site of Alexandria's ancient Royal Library which vanished nearly 16 centuries ago and in which Archimedes and Euclid both studied, Egypt's tourism ministry ...

Less than a mile from the sunken remnants of the royal quarters, in the middle of Alexandria’s busy, modern downtown, Polish excavators have uncovered 20 lecture halls dating to the late fifth ...

Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, Meroë, and Jenne-Jeno were once centers of sophistication and wealth, but their fortunes waned over time. Although their ancient splendors disappeared from sight ...

Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart, Germany Walter Bibikow/Getty Images This cube-like library isn't as opulent as some of the older, grander halls, but it's certainly one of the most interesting.

The Library was built in the Brucheion, or Royal Quarter, of Alexandria. Its exact layout is not known, but ancient sources describe it as comprising a collection of scrolls known as bibliothekai ...

All Royal Residences are Haunted, New Documentary Claims: ‘They Live with Their Ghosts’ Members of the royal family “know it and have witnessed it,” according to paranormal historian ...