The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Many of the world’s earliest archives and libraries were destroyed thousands of years ago, leaving behind only fragments of ...

Herodotus recounts how an ancient Lydian king’s betrayal of his queen led to murder, revenge, and the fall of his throne.

In some respects, the life of a Mesopotamian scholar in the seventh century B.C. was not so very different from that of a modern academic. While the former might be responsible for reporting on ...

The Bountiful Branch of the Davis County Library is set to close on Monday Jan 26 for an 18-month renovation project.

The Othello Library is attracting a lot of attention in its new space. “Everybody comments on how beautiful it is, and how ...

It's unclear who returned the long-overdue books, but the patron left an apologetic note.

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out. By Eric Niiler The ...

Anke Gowda, a veteran book curator from Karnataka, has been selected for the Padma Shri for his remarkable contribution to ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Gowda, founder of one of India’s largest free-access libraries, is among three Padma Shri awardees from Karnataka this year, ...

The group of workers who smudged the glass cases of the almirahs clean or hanged the massive chandeliers from the high ...