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After a fifth-century A.D. earthquake, Cleopatra's palace slid into the Mediterranean. Alexandria's magnificent lighthouse, library and museum are all gone. The city has sunk some 20 feet.

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

Cleopatra I is shown in temple reliefs standing ... one of the Wonders of the Ancient World, and the Library, then the largest repository of learning in the known world. It is this other side ...

Frazee returned to Electric Park for the 1909 season, bringing with him some 2,000 alligators and crocodiles of various sizes ...

A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio which was stolen 25 years ago is to go on display for the first time in more than a decade. The book was taken from Durham University's Cosin's Library in 1998 and ...

Let's get real—if you could jump across eras, you wouldn't go light. You'd pack on pieces of the Renaissance, bits of the retro-futuristic. A scroll, a Game Boy, perhaps a neon monocle to complete ...

It includes 36 plays, including Anthony and Cleopatra, Macbeth and The Tempest and without it these works might have been lost. Stuart Hunt, director of university library and collections and ...

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Today on World Book Day, Goyal talks of his love for books, the joy of buying the books, treasuring them and then imbibing their goodness as and when time allows. I think I have suffered from a couple ...