Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including the Forum of Peace in Rome, dedicated by Emperor Vespasian; the Library of ...

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

Throughout history, many incredible places have vanished due to natural disasters, human intervention, or the passage of time ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

No travel destination in the world offers the diversity of Egypt. The country unquestionably belongs to a social and cultural ...

Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

Bibliophiles, rejoice, because there’s a literary wonderland tucked away in Englewood, Colorado, that’s about to become your ...

At Thrifty Peanut in Shreveport, Louisiana, book lovers can spend hours exploring towering shelves filled with gently used ...

Today in Alexandria, the Oswald Durant Center and Annie B. Rose House bear the names of these two civil rights leaders.

NASA has presented rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu which exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life.

Instead of rebuilding the armory, the city built a children’s playground on the site in the 1950s, and today, residents can ...