The Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the world.
It is generally thought to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC, during the reign...
libraries are collection of books which are of only history and archeology at the time of Alexandria..but today's library are group of all different types of books which have many contrast and vast...
Under pagan Roman Emperor Aurelian, in A.D. 272, the greater part of the Brucheion was destroyed, and it is most probable that the library perished at this time, though Caesar had probably burnt some...
This is from Encarta.
According to legend, the library at Alexandria was burned three times: in ad272 (by order of the Roman emperor Lucius Domitius Aurelian), in 391 (under the Roman emperor...