The Bibliotheca Ulpia ("Ulpian Library") was a Roman library founded by the Emperor Trajan in AD 114 in the Forum of Trajan, located in ancient Rome.

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Explore the fascinating history of Roman public libraries, from their origins in Greek and Hellenistic traditions to the groundbreaking innovations in architecture and accessibility that made them centers …

Jul 22, 2019 · The Library of Celsus in ancient Ephesus, located in western Turkey, was a repository of over 12,000 scrolls and one of the most impressive buildings in the Roman Empire.

Dec 20, 2025 · There were many private libraries in classical Rome, including that of Cicero. Indeed, it became highly fashionable to own a library, judging from the strictures of the moralizing statesman …

Romans valued not just the scientific but also the educational and entertainment aspects of literature. As a result, having your own library was a status symbol for Roman citizens, and public libraries also …

Institutionalized collections of books, such as libraries, appeared in the Roman Empire relatively late, around the second half of the 3rd century BCE. Even younger, from the 2nd century BCE there are …

Ancient Roman libraries tended to be built into a semicircular room accessed by way of a portico. The library room was lit by natural light entering through the roof. The scrolls were kept in wooden boxes …

Even though the tablets were written in several different languages, the most important aspect of the library was the 1,400 texts written in Ugaritic, unknown when the library was discovered in 1928.

After the Libraries of Alexandria and Pergamum (Pergamon), the Bibliotheca Ulpia, or the Ulpian Library, was the most famous library of antiquity and, of all the Roman libraries, the only one to survive at …