Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile's dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. Archaeologists discovered the epic structure ...

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CUT OFF by a muddy pool fed by an ancient river, close to the bottom of an excavation 30 metres deep, archaeologists exploring a villa buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79 have found two great ...

THE OBJECT known as P.Herc.Paris.3 resembles a dark grey lump of charcoal, about the size and shape of a banana. That explains its nickname: Banana Boy. It is in fact a papyrus scroll, found in the ...

Athens, cradle of philosophy and the arts, housed during the imperial period one of the most unique libraries of antiquity: the Library of Pantainos. Built between 98 and 102 CE during the reign of ...

Construction works on a church community center have revealed the ruins of a Roman library in the city of Cologne, Germany. Believed to be the oldest in the country, the library dates from the second ...

Where to begin? My first acquaintance with a library took place at the age of 4 when my mother took me to the little Carnegie Library in our hometown. The building had a lower floor for just ...

Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile's dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. Archaeologists discovered the epic structure ...