Scientists found 7,000-year-old mummies in the desert that don’t share DNA with modern humans Luigi Mangione yells out in court as judge sets New York trial for June Two Brits try the first-ever ...

The real Cleopatra was not the Hollywood seductress, but a scholar-queen whose brilliant mind commanded an empire. Fluent in seven languages and educated in Alexandria's greatest library, she used ...

Mass layoffs at The Washington Post yesterday (Wednesday) dealt a punishing blow to the newspaper's storied history of local ...

The nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of Black History Month this month, a milestone rooted in the vision of historian Carter G. Woodson.

Representation in children’s books is important, said Roy Kinsey, a librarian and rapper whose book “Deangelo and the Dandelion” tells the story of a queer Black youngster from ...

Publishers Weekly reported that mass market paperbacks have stopped being distributed to North American booksellers by the one of the largest distributors.

Did you resolve to read more books in 2026? We’ve got some inspiration: Now that 2025 is in the books, so to speak, local library systems are sharing their most borrowed titles of last year—which are ...

Elon Musk said that Grokipedia will one day be etched into stone and sent to Mars and deep space. The online encyclopedia would preserve human knowledge, Musk said, like a "modern-day Library of ...

The ancient city of Alexandria, nestled on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, held a unique and enduring status as the intellectual capital of its time. Its remarkable legacy as a hub for knowledge and ...

The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal has sometimes been described as the ‘first library’ in the world, or the ‘oldest surviving royal library in the world’. The library was discovered by archaeologists ...

The Library of Alexandria wasn’t just a hoard of scrolls; it was a beacon of knowledge in the ancient world. Established in the heart of Egypt, it attracted scholars from all corners of the earth.