Remember that one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Buffy’s watcher Giles has Willow spend the whole summer scanning his vast library of ancient occult books into the computer for the Scooby ...

Eight distinguished British and American classicists are calling for the immediate resumption of excavation at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in Southern Italy. In a letter published in The ...

One of the oldest libraries on the planet is digitizing its archive of ancient manuscripts — and they’re all available to view free of charge. Monsignor Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic ...

In October 1731, a fire at London’s Ashburnham House destroyed portions of the Old Royal Library and the Cotton library. Fortunately, the Old Royal Library’s most precious object, the Codex ...

A collection of rare Christian manuscripts—some dating to the fifth and sixth centuries—will soon be accessible to scholars worldwide, thanks to a first-time collaboration between Brigham Young ...

Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile's dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. Archaeologists discovered the epic structure ...

Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum has been part of my daily life for years. Parks and trails surrounding the center connect my neighborhood to the Martin Luther King Jr ...

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The Dover Public Library is set to feature a collection of tools and artifacts from local collector Larry Wonderly in its ...