1. Which ancient Roman city founded by the emperor Trajan included a large library?

2. Which Greek poet and grammarian was appointed as the royal librarian of Antioch by Antiochus the Great?

3. Which ruler established the Imperial Library of Constantinople and reigned from 337 to 361 CE?

4. Which Chinese text, compiled during the Ming dynasty, was then the world’s largest known encyclopaedia?

5. Which Grecian island had a large book market that helped supply the Library of Alexandria?

6. Which ancient university and Buddhist monastic center, dating to the time of the Buddha (6th–5th century BCE), continued to flourish as a center of learning until circa 1200?

7. Which Assyrian king maintained an archive of some 30,000 tablets, comprising transcripts and texts systematically collected from temples throughout his kingdom?

8. A temple in which Babylonian town dating from the first half of the 3rd millennium BCE was found to have a number of rooms filled with clay tablets featuring early depictions of the Great Flood?

9. At which site were more than 4,000 cuneiform tablets, written mostly in Akkadian, discovered?

10. In which ancient Mesopotamian city was the great palace of Zimrilim, which held thousands of archives that extended the knowledge of Assyrian geography and history, located?

11. Which major educational centre, discovered virtually intact, housed more than 17,000 clay cuneiform tablets and fragments?

12. In which ancient city was the magnificent Celsus Library, which once held about 12,000 scrolls?

13. Which ancient city lying in a large artificial mound was home to a temple library that revealed a hitherto unknown cuneiform alphabetic script?