Topic - Libraries
Century BC. Libraries were filled with parchment and papyrus scrolls. There were a
few institutional or royal libraries like the Library of Alexandria which were open to an
educated public but on the whole, collections were private.
In Persia, many libraries were established bu royalty and the Persian Kings. Among
the first ones was a royal library in Isfahan. One of the most important public libraries
established around 667 AD in Iran was the Library of Gundishapur which was a part
of a bigger scientific complex. In the west, the first public libraries were established
under the Roman Empire as each new emperor strove to open one or many which
outshone that of his predecessor. Unlike the Greek libraries, readers had direct
access to the scrolls.
3. Famous libraries
Some of the greatest libraries in the world are research libraries. The most famous
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