Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

An expert works on the restoration of an ancient palm-leaf manuscript at Fudan University Library. Photo: Courtesy of Fudan University Library ...

a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have been the first such ...

The second-largest city in the Roman Empire is now the second largest in Egypt. Here's what to know if you go.

Among the most striking and memorable exhibits in the British Museum are the Assyrian reliefs depicting the royal hunt. These ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a grand Greco-Roman residential complex, dubbed the “Mosaic House,” in the ancient city of Pergamon ...

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 Martin Luther ...

An ancient bible thought to be more than 700-years-old and illustrated by a medieval master is on public display for the ...

While carrying out excavations in the ancient city of Pergamon, Türkiye, archaeologists came across a grand residential ...

The Malabathrinum papyrus (P.Vindob. G 35250, Herakleopolis/Middle Egypt, 5th century CE) contains a recipe for an eye ...

a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have been the first such ...