Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the ...

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 ...

This video is no longer available. 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 ...

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It was the quietest of protests. Five young African American men sat reading at separate tables in Alexandria’s new whites-only library on Queen Street. They had just been refused library cards; in ...

The legendary library of Alexandria boasted that it had a copy of virtually every known manuscript in the ancient world. This bibliophile's fantasy in Egypt's largest port city vanished, probably in a ...

Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian ...

An electrical fire blamed on a short circuit sent heavy smoke through the new Alexandria library yesterday, and police said 29 people were taken to local hospitals to be treated for smoke inhalation.