name of first library built?

Answer 1

The oldest collection of writings was found at the temple of Akhnaten the father of King Tut. According to Egyptologists he lived about 1300BC. Akhnaten set up a new religion in Egypt, and built temples to the new god. He was known as a heritic, and when he died these temples were abandoned. It was known as an evil place and was not looted as were many other ancient Egyptian sites. Excavations of the site have shown that Akhnaten kept extensive records of correspondence with vassel kings throughout the Empire. Although it was not a "Lending" library, that large number of documents was the first intact library to be discovered.

There are indications that Queen Hatshepsut,(About 1600 BC) and her son Thutmose III also had libraries several centuries before Akhnaten, but if these libraries existed they have been looted long ago

Answer 2

The first libraries were only partly libraries, being composed for the most part of unpublished records, which are usually viewed as archives, not libraries. Archaeological findings from the ancient city-states of Sumer have revealed temple rooms full of clay tablets in cuneiform script. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on papyrus of Ancient Egypt.

The earliest discovered private archives were kept at Ugarit; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes.

Private or personal libraries made up of non-fiction and fiction books, (as opposed to the state or institutional records kept in archives) first appeared in classical Greece. The first ones appeared some time near the 5th century BC. The celebrated book collectors of Hellenistic Antiquity were listed in the late second century in Deipnosophistae:[1]

Answer 3

Assurbanipal - King of ancient Assyria around 650 BC - built a library to hold thousands of clay tablets - "...excavations at Nineveh have uncovered 22,000 clay tablets from his library—the chief sources of knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia." - from the Columbia Encyclopedia - compared to the Library at Alexandria - which was only around 300 BC.

Answer 4

The oldest English-speaking library in the world is Chetham's in Manchester, UK.

Answer 5

Alexandria

Answer 6

LIBRARY

Answer 7

"A"