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A plan of the Library of Hadrian, Athens. c.132-134 CE. Later churches constructed at the centre of the complex are also indicated.

A depiction of a manticore found in the British Library. Manticore Bestiary Harley MS 3244, ff 36r-71v.

Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland.

A statue of the Greek goddess Athena from the Library of Pergamon. 200-150 BCE. Height: 310.5 cm. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin)

Prunksaal (State Hall) is the central structure of the old imperial library and part of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria. It was build between 1721-1723. Located in the hall are marble statues of emperors and the statue of emperor Charles...

Prunksaal (State Hall) is the central structure of the old imperial library and part of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria. It was build between 1721-1723. The hall is divided, after the original list of the books, into "war" and "peace"...

Prunksaal (State Hall) is the central structure of the old imperial library and part of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria. It was build between 1721-1723 and it housed about 200,000 books.

The Blegen Library in Athens.

Did you know that the Library of Alexandria didn’t fall like most people think? This video is all about the Great Library of Alexandria, how it worked, and how its fall did not, actually, set human knowledge back thousands of years. The...

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very audacious goal: to collect all the knowledge in the world...