Alexandria overshadowed Pergamon, yet the Anatolian library rivaled Egypt in scrolls, scholarship, and parchment, shaping the modern world.

It was one of the world’s great cradles of civilisation and the largest excavated archaeological site on Earth. But few ...

The heirs of their original owner (Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, from a prominent Jewish family) claimed the paintings were ...

Please note the library will be open as normal on Monday 25 (BH) and Tuesday 26 (CD) August. Wills Library is opening for extended hours this summer whilst the ASSL Ground Floor improvement works are ...

The Medical Library will be closed from Wednesday 24 December to Sunday 4 January. We will reopen with term-time hours from Monday 5 January 2026.