The former name of the Biblioth�que nationale de France - the national library of France
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The RoyalLibrary, or Kungliga Biblioteket (KB), is the national library of Sweden.
The present location of the RoyalLibrary is, since 2 January 1878, in Humlegården park in Stockholm.
These plans were consolidated in an agreement made in 1964 between the Lenin Library in Moscow and the RoyalLibrary in which the respective libraries agreed to exchange their countries' literature.
The Library's contents were likely distributed over several buildings, with the main library either located directly attached to or close to the oldest building, the Museum, and a daughter library in the younger Serapeum, also a temple dedicated to the God Serapis.
Not surprisingly, the Great Library became a symbol for knowledge itself, and its destruction was attributed to those who were portrayed as ignorant barbarians, often for purely political reasons.
The destruction of the library is attributed by some historians to a period of civil war in the late 3rd century CE -- but we know that the Museum, which was adjacent to the library, survived until the 4th century.
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