An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from ...

The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library in 1911 by ...

Researchers have unearthed what is believed to be the earliest chronicle of a miracle performed by Jesus in his childhood. The remarkable narrative was discovered in an ancient Egyptian manuscript, ...

Parchment fragments discovered in bindings of much later volumes reveal ‘subtle but significant’ variations on Arthurian legend Fragments of a medieval manuscript telling the story of Merlin, which ...

The enigmatic Voynich manuscript has baffled scholars, cryptographers, and historians for centuries. Recent technological advances and scholarly efforts offer new insights into its mysterious contents ...

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...

The world is passing through a revolution in the field of documentation in terms of decoding and digitisation of ancient manuscript, data sharing and data mining. Whenever the technology is upgraded, ...

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, had what would be one of the most coveted front-row seats in history, if tickets were sold for such things: in 1789, he was among the (seven) inmates freed ...

The museum determined that the handwritten manuscript, which is more than a thousand years old, had been looted from the monastery during World War I. By Jane Arraf The Museum of the Bible in ...