Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...

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 ...

However, it was severely damaged by three earthquakes between 956 and 1303 AD. The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world ...

The Grant Parish Sheriff's Office release stated it had arrested Deidre Fuqua, a 40-year-old resident of Alexandria, on charges of three counts of filing or maintaining false public records ...

The Rapides Parish Library has a new mobile app available for download on Apple and Android devices. Expanding the oversight of a government agency is the focus of one house bill by a Central ...

The Rapides Parish Library has a new mobile app available for download on Apple and Android devices. This app is designed to ...

As director of the Rapides Parish Library, Celise Reech-Harper likes that she is in a position to make a positive impact in the community for which she cares deeply.