Ruins of a huge library built in the 2nd century are discovered

The ruins of a huge public library built in the middle of the second century were discovered in Cologne, Germany. It is thought that this library had 20,000 volumes of scrolls.

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The ruins of this library were to be found as a result of the discovery of "part of the ruins wall" in the site of the church in the center of Cologne in 2017. The archaeologist says "This building was built in ancient Roman times," as one of the buildings in the oldest German city " Colonia " founded by the ancient Romans in the AD 50 is.

According to Dirk Schmidz of the Roman-Germanic Museum, "There was a small gap in the wall found, but I was worried about what gap it was because it was not big enough to hold a statue." It was said that he did not know what building was originally built for the first time. After that, as we continued the investigation, it turned out that the gap was a shelf to put scrolls, and it became clear that it was a huge library that can store 20,000 volume scrolls later.

Schmidz said, "The library found this time is definitely the oldest library in Germany built in the middle of the second century," it is highly likely that it was a library built in the era of ancient Rome during the era I am doing. He also points out the possibility that similar libraries may exist in various parts of Europe, "There are other such libraries, but probably they have not been discovered yet". The library found this time is very huge, but it is slightly smaller than Ephesus ' Kesus Library in Turkey.

Mr. Schmitz suggested that this building was used as a public library, "It is said that being in the center of Cologne is in the center of Colonia, an urban center in ancient Roman times Because the department was used as a public plaza, all the buildings in that place should have been public buildings. "