History of Library Institutions

I thought I'd post a series of post on the history of Library Institutions. Did you realize that Libraries have been around since before 3000BCE. The first evidence or Library have been on clay tablets. Why there isn't much written down, in antiquity there was a love for libraries, and even into the biblical times. They loved to read. The Egyptians had libraries on Papryus, which made the word literate. And believe it or not, because the Greeks, Jews, Palestinians, Romans, Muslims, Chinese, and Indians have always loved reading and knowledge. But when the Germans invaded Rome, they burned the libraries in Rome, cause Rome had a public library system, and they thought reading was dangerous for uprising, and as soon as books went into parchment, books were expensive, and people went from literate to illiterate. the only people who could read were monks and nuns, and it wasn't until the 1300's in Italy that people started to educate people on reading. Oxford and the University of Paris are some of the oldest universities. They had degrees from law, medicine, public speaking and they didn't have tests. The whole "humanities" was to be familiar with the arts, history, politics, and religion. Those were the four main points. Painting too was a big medium for MILLIONS of years. From cave men painting on cave, to the Greeks and their elaborate mosaics, ceiling paintings, pottery, sculpture, and most of the Romans were Etruscans first, and they have a language people still can't translate. The ovid was created to bring history into the Roman people, and to be used as propaganda.

This is just a taste of the history that I learned in my Humanities experience, It's different from history, its a scope of life itself.

I hope you find this interesting...