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Ancient Libraries
Collections such as Nineveh and Alexandria gather the knowledge of the world in one place and make scholarship a profession.
Open in the interactive tree →Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh (~650 BC) preserved tens of thousands of clay tablets. The Library of Alexandria (founded in the 3rd century BC) systematically collected scrolls from across the Mediterranean. Cataloguing, copying and comparing texts laid the groundwork for scholarly working methods.
Prerequisites
- Writing~3200 BC
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- Baghdad Translation Movement~800
- Universities1088
- Public Museum1753
- Public Libraries1850
- Web Archives & Mass Digitization1996-2004Libraries are the model and, for Google Books, the partners and sources.
- AI Reads Herculaneum Scrolls2023
More in Foundations of Civilization · Antiquity
- Writing~3200 BC
- Weights & Standard Measures~2500 BC
- Alphabet~1800 BC
- Sundial & Water Clock~1500 BC
- Philosophy~585 BC
- Plato's Academy387 BC
- Calendar3rd millennium BC
- Paper~105 AD