Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are, those like the Archimedes palimpsest that were hand-written on parchment and other materials long before the invention of the printing ...

Fourteen interesting and unusual manuscripts of the 13th and 15th centuries have just been received from the library of the Law School. Among these manuscripts, which are on exhibition for the ...

In Portugal, in the city of Figueira da Foz, medieval manuscripts were discovered in a dumpster. After examination, it turned out that the oldest of them is over a thousand years old. An ...

It was first thought to be a 14th century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... off any ink and writing on the fresh surface. The old text isn’t entirely gone, though. It remains embedded in the ...

The Emirates Libraries and Information Association (ELIA) celebrates Arabic Manuscript Day each year on April 4th to honour ...

Researchers have discovered a manuscript of one of the oldest versions of the story of King Arthur. How did they find and decipher it?

Amid the rubble of the seven-century-old Great Omari Mosque library, Palestinian researcher Hanin al-Amassi carefully holds the remnants of ancient books and manuscripts. She gently removes the ...

Led by the School of Histories and Humanities, the CLÓSCAPE project will document and preserve Dublin’s old bilingual street ...

The public are being asked to help document and preserve Dublin’s old bilingual street signs with their unique Gaelic ...

Over the years, there has been an increasing demand for an effective and cost-efficient drug discovery process. The study of ...