The ancient Library of Alexandria was—as is known—burned, depriving the world of its wealth of knowledge. But who actually ...

One of the world’s most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years. The British Library said Monday that it was ...

"I'd be doing this even if you weren't here," Tarik Tuten, my host, tells me. "I walk for hours on Rhodes. It's my habit," he adds, as his polite, Turkish-accented English cuts through the quiet alley ...