The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the popular imagination continues to cling. The idea of a truly universal ...

In 48 B.C., Julius Caesar was engaged in a fierce battle for power against his arch rival Pompey. By this time, the Romans largely controlled Egypt, though the descendants of Ptolemy still ruled ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Inside the walls of this Alexandria Library, there is no shortage of stories. But for one woman who was born and raised here, they're more than just stories. "Because I know that ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A huge grant that looks to preserve our history and honor the sacrifice and struggle of those who came before us is getting us uplifted. Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ...

Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling exhibition, detailing the events, ...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black men ...

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

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 ...