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The Library of Pergamum
- The Library of Pergamum was constructed in the third century B.C. by members of the Attalid dynasty in modern-day Turkey.
- It was housed in a temple complex devoted to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.
- The ancient chronicler Pliny the Elder said the Library of Pergamum became so famous that it was considered to be in "keen competition" with the Library of Alexandria.
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The House of Wisdom
- Baghdad (the Iraqi city) was once one of the world's centres of learning and culture.
- The House of Wisdom was established in the ninth century A.D. during the reign of the Abbasids.
- The library was stocked with Persian, Indian, and Greek manuscripts on mathematics, astron...
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The Library of Alexandria
- The ancient world's intellectual jewel was established by general Ptolemy I Soter after Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C.
- At its peak, it may have included over 500,000 papyrus scrolls containing works of literature and texts on history, law, mathematics, and science. ...
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The Libraries of Trajan’s Forum
- Around 112 A.D. the multi-use building complex was completed by Emperor Trajan in the city of Rome.
- It consisted of plazas, markets, and religious temples as well as a library.
- Two separate structures housed the library, one for works in Latin, and one for works in Greek...
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The Imperial Library of Constantinople
- The library was built in the fourth century A.D. under Constantine the Great but stayed small until the fifth century.
- The collection increased to 120,000 scrolls and codices.
- The Imperial Library size continued to increase and shrink over the following centuries due to n...
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The Library of Celsus
- Around 120 A.D. the son of the Roman consul Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus completed a memorial library to his father in Ephesus (modern-day Turkey).
- The building featured four statues representing Wisdom, Virtue, Intelligence, and Knowledge.
- The library may have held...
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The Villa of the Papyri
- The collection of the "Villa of the Papyri" is the only collection to survive to the present day.
- About 1,800 scrolls were located in the Roman city of Herculaneum.
- When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., the library was buried - and preserved - under 90-foot of volcanic ...
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The Library of Ashurbanipal
- In the mid-19th century, archaeologists found the ruins of the world's oldest known library in Nineveh (modern-day Iraq).
- It dates back to the 7th century B.C and includes 30,000 cuneiform tablets, mostly containing archival documents, religious incantations and scholarly texts.
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Alexandria pioneered the universal library
The idea of a universal library proved to be a game-changer. Alexandria inspired other cities to create rival "universal libraries," such as the Library of Pergamum in today's Turkey.
The Great Library's main structure was likely burned in 48BCE when Ptolemy XIII laid a si...
The Library of Alexandria
- The ancient world's intellectual jewel was established by general Ptolemy I Soter after Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C.
- At its peak, it may have included over 500,000 papyrus scrolls containing works of literature and texts on history, law, mathematics, and science. ...
The Imperial Library of Constantinople
- The library was built in the fourth century A.D. under Constantine the Great but stayed small until the fifth century.
- The collection increased to 120,000 scrolls and codices.
- The Imperial Library size continued to increase and shrink over the following centuries due to n...
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