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16 hours ago · Further evidence for the Library's survival after 48 BC comes from the fact that the most notable producer of composite commentaries during the late first century BC and early first century AD was a scholar who worked in Alexandria named Didymus Chalcenterus, whose epithet Χαλκέντερος (Chalkénteros) means "bronze guts".
- Libraries of The Ancient World
Long considered to be the first systematically collected...
- Imperial Library of Constantinople
The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city...
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ ɛr ə ˈ t ɒ s θ ə n iː z /; Greek:...
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The...
- List of Destroyed Libraries
Birmingham Central Library destroyed by fire, 1879 The urn...
- Zenodotus
A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he lived...
- Palmyrene Invasion
The Palmyrene invasion of Egypt occurred in the summer, or...
- Libraries of The Ancient World
16 hours ago · Mentuhotep II [83] Mentuhotep II regained all Egypt c. 2015 BC, Middle Kingdom begins, becomes first pharaoh of Middle Kingdom. 2060–2040 BC [31] (King of Upper Egypt only) 2040–2009 BC [31] (King of Upper and Lower Egypt) Sankhkare. Mentuhotep III [84] Commanded the first expedition to Punt of the Middle Kingdom.
16 hours ago · The Hittites ( / ˈhɪtaɪts /) were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, [2] they settled in modern day Turkey in the early 2nd millennium BC. The Hittites formed a series of polities in north-central Anatolia, including the ...
16 hours ago · t. e. From its origin as a city-state on the peninsula of Italy in the 8th century BC, to its rise as an empire covering much of Southern Europe, Western Europe, Near East and North Africa to its fall in the 5th century AD, the political history of Ancient Rome was closely entwined with its military history. The core of the campaign history of ...
16 hours ago · During the 1st century BC silk was still a rare commodity in the Roman world; by the 1st century AD this valuable trade item became much more widely available. In his Natural History (77–79 AD), Pliny the Elder lamented the financial drain of coin from the Roman economy to purchase this expensive luxury.
16 hours ago · Electromagnetism. Maxwell's equations, or Maxwell–Heaviside equations, are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, electric and magnetic circuits. The equations provide a mathematical model for electric, optical, and radio ...
16 hours ago · Biblical accounts Map of Israel as it was in the 9th century BC. Blue is the Kingdom of Israel.Golden yellow is the Kingdom of Judah.. According to the Bible, by the 9th century BC, the Kingdom of Israel, once united under Solomon, had been divided into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah (which retained the historical capital of Jerusalem along with its Temple).
