Dr. Aaron D. Lewis is a booklover, with almost 4,000 books in his private library.
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Libraries are as old as civilization itself, brought about by the need to store knowledge and recorded information for future use. Since ancient times, libraries have evolved to become more than just mere repositories of written text, and have come to fulfill a more diversified role in society.
One of the earliest finds related to stored knowledge feature the 30,000 clay tablets dating back to ancient Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago. Other notable finds include papyrus scrolls from the Egyptian cities of Armana and Thebes from 1300-1200 BC. The presence of such large collections indicated the existence of storage systems akin to today’s libraries.
Dr. Aaron D. Lewis is also a publisher, and is associated with Foghorn Publishers.
The Greeks played a large part in the development of libraries. Private collections of books were common, and in the fourth century BC, the first public library was opened in Greece. The Greek city of Alexandria in Egypt had a great library established and maintained by the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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Monasteries became the next purveyor of knowledge during the early part of the millennium after Christ. It was a requirement for monks to be literate, and it was them who kept knowledge in the form of volumes upon volumes of scroll and books. However, turmoil and war often saw the destruction of many libraries at the time.
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The Golden Age of libraries came in 1600s and 1700s in Europe, an offshoot of the Renaissance. Britain was home to many libraries, the largest of which was the British Library. For the first time, the library became more than just a collection of books; it also became a standard mark of a country’s civilization.
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