Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

Unlike the perfectly arranged blocks of Egypt's pyramids ... Findings among the stones include documents written in Greek on papyrus – a material similar to paper, made from the pith of ...

Arguments still rage about how the pyramids were built, but a new discovery has taken giant steps toward the incredible truth ...

These include the first known writing systems in Uruk over 5,000 years ago, incised in cuneiform clay tablets, as well as ancient Egyptian and ... unspooling of ancient papyrus or parchment ...

In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million ...