Located in Ephesus, western Turkey.
•It was the third-largest library in the Greco-Roman world behind only those of Alexandria and Pergamum.
•The library is believed to have held around 12,000 scrolls.
•Today, only the library’s impressive facade remains of this once great building.
•It was commissioned by a consul of the Roman Republic, Tiberius Julius Aquila Polemaeanus, as a funerary monument for his father Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus.
•Celsus is buried in a crypt beneath the library in a decorated marble sarcophagus.
•The building was commissioned in the years 110s CE and completed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.
