Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson - 1506 Words

â€Å"Libraries in the Ancient World† by Lionel Casson â€Å"Libraries in the Ancient World† by Lionel Casson is the book that details inclusive study of libraries in the ancient world and provides the origination of the libraries to its founding and development starting in the western world from the ancient Near East to the early Byzantine period. As the history tells ancient writing pertains that there have been the foundation of the libraries and the most helping archeology remains of the Sumerians details on the idea that number of sites has laid bare library remains. Lionel Casson in the book compact the ideas of the libraries throughout the history focusing on writings and civilization beginning from the ancient Near East, Greece, Roman Empire, Alexandria, and the middle ages. Not only that Casson also relates the development and archeological facts of the ancient library systems, holdings and addresses the connection between the rise in education and literacy, al so the early development of the public libraries. The authors provides us various information about the ancient libraries providing their holdings, nature of publishing in the Greek and Roman world, also the transformation of the nature of the library holdings. Casson take on the Near East does provide fact about the writings and their civilization but does not add to the histories of the libraries but prelude that the archives preservation was natural way to collect the textual past in that era. â€Å"In ancient timesShow MoreRelatedReligious Beliefs of the Egyptians2086 Words   |  9 Pagesenvironment influenced daily life religious beliefs of the Egyptians Ancient Egypt had a complex array of religious belief systems. Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs can be linked with the environment that they lived in. There are many myths relating to the creation of the world, all these have the environmental representation within them. The life and death cycle of the Egyptians was represented in the patterns of nature. Ancient Egyptians believed in many unique existences in the afterlife. Egyptians