Writing about Amazon.com's ranking of Alexandria as the nation's "Most Well-Read City" for the second year in a row, The Post faulted Roman Emperor Julius Caesar for having destroyed the famed and ...

In the year 48 BCE, the Library of Alexandria, protector of the knowledge of the ancient world, was burned by the clumsy minions of Julius Caesar, then on his way to becoming Dictator for Life of Rome ...

It's said that in 48 BC, a large portion of the Great Library of Alexandria's collection was destroyed in a fire started by Julius Caesar during Caesar's Civil War. By that time, Alexandria, Egypt, ...