Explore Ephesus: Library of Celsus, One of the oldest and largest libraries of Ancient Roman Empire

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About Library of Celsus:
The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey. The building was commissioned in the years 110s CE by a consul of the Roman Republic, Gaius Julius Aquila, as a funerary monument for his father Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, former proconsul of Asia, and completed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, sometime after Aquila's death.

The Library of Celsus is considered an architectural marvel and is one of the only remaining examples of a library from the Roman Empire. It was the third-largest library in the Greco-Roman world behind only Alexandria and Pergamum and believed to have held around twelve thousand scrolls. Celsus is buried in a crypt beneath the library in a decorated marble sarcophagus. The interior measured roughly 180 square meters (2,000 square feet).

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