Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

Published in PLOS ONE, the research employs computational tools to analyze nearly 1,000 manuscripts from the British Library, ...

Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies feature in an exhibition on our ancestors’ quest to cure everything from ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician known as Galen.

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes ...

“Ancient parchment manuscripts are disappearing from our culture, which motivated us to start this project,” she says. The precious works are kept mainly in monasteries, where prayers or ...

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar has revealed the remains of an ancient royal structure from the ...

Renowned art historian and author Ritika Kocchar in a lecture, titled ‘The Art of the Gurkanis – Myths, Masnavis and Miniatures’ on Saturday delved deep into the manuscripts from 13th to ...

Some chiefs wanted cash, others settled for livestock. But Haidara negotiated hard—he had grown up around ancient manuscripts and had developed a keen sense of each book's worth. "I gave out a ...