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What Was Lost When the Library of Alexandria Burned?Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Greece ...
Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential, controversial, and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes.
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 ...
Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge. Established by an exiled Athenian statesman the “universal library” of ...
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 ...
At the dawn of the Common Era, the Egyptian city of Alexandria boasted the greatest library of the ancient world. It would last only until 30 BC, when Cleopatra had her fatal encounter with the ...
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The Town Talk on MSNGrant Police Jury fires library director after arrest, makes other changes to systemThe director of the Grant Parish Library system was fired by a unanimous vote of the Police Jury Friday afternoon, and top ...
An investigation by the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office has led to the arrest of the director of the Grant Parish Library ...
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