Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...

Ayman el-Almir: The library was conceived as an institution of excellence to be the world's window on Asia with its various cultural civilisations, from Pharaohnic to the Greek and Ptolemaic to the ...

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2世紀半ばに建設された巨大な公共図書館の遺跡がドイツのケルンで発見されました。この図書館には2万巻の巻物が所蔵さ ...

What if someone told you that the future direction of the Internet is about to be influenced not by Palo Alto, Beijing, or the multi-stakeholder groups of the United Nations, but by an ancient library ...

(The Conversation) — Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum has been part of my daily life for years. Parks and trails surrounding the center connect my neighborhood to the ...

Audio recordings retracing UNESCO's involvement in the planning and execution of the project Revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria, and Creation of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (circa 1987). The ...

JULIUS Caesar robbed the world of one of its ancient wonders when he set fire to the library at Alexandria in 35BC. The 40,000 volumes housed in grain depots near the harbour were incinerated when he ...

The opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria. “If I could ...

The ruins of a huge public library built in the middle of the second century were discovered in Cologne, Germany. It is thought that this library had 20,000 volumes of scrolls. The ruins of this ...