A rabbit attempts to play a church organ, while a knight fights a giant snail and a naked man blows a trumpet with his rear end. These bizarre images, painted with squirrel-hair brushes on vellum or parchment by monks, nuns and urban...

How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the...

Gregory Heyworth is a textual scientist; he and his lab work on new ways to read ancient manuscripts and maps using spectral imaging technology. In this fascinating talk, watch as Heyworth shines a light on lost history, deciphering...

On the edge of the vast Sahara desert, citizens snuck out of the city of Timbuktu and took to the wilderness. They buried chests in the desert sand, hid them in caves, and sealed them in secret rooms. Inside these chests was a treasure...

Home to millions of books and manuscripts, the Library of Congress is a hub of culture and knowledge, pioneering digital accessibility while safeguarding America's rich history.

Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) reveals how a careful study of Arab-Greek bilingualism can shed important light on a wealth of societal values, including the very foundations of their systems of knowledge.

In this episode we examine the topic: The Book of Enoch Explained

Mary Magdalene has a ton of conspiracy theories swirling around her. Most are pure speculation. But a recent study by a Duke University New Testament PhD student, Elizabeth Schrader, argues that the copiers of the Gospel of John may have...

According to a legend in Greek mythology, the island's original name was "Letois", after the goddess and huntress of deer Artemis, daughter of Leto. It was believed that Patmos came into existence thanks to her divine intervention. The...

In late 2015, JW Mason and Arjun Jayadev went to speak with Axel Leijonhuvud, in retirement in Pismo Beach, to ask about his work and the intellectual paths not taken after 1968. Over a couple of days with him and his wife Earlene, they...

Bino can’t find one of his books because he can’t remember where he left it. Mama Mama teaches the children to treasure their books.

Thirteen years ago, when al-Qaida-connected fighters swept into the city, staff and local families smuggled tens of thousands of manuscripts south to Bamako for safety

The Malian military government on Monday started returning home the historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, which were spirited out of their fabled northern city when it was occupied by al-Qaida-linked militants more than a decade ago

Historians in Qatar say they have intervened to stop the sale of nearly a dozen stolen manuscripts from Afghanistan.

There are more than 60,000 manuscripts stored in Iraq’s national museum, making this one of the most extensive and vital collections about the Arab world.

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The earliest surviving manuscript of Einstein's Theory of Relativity has gone on show in London before being sold in New York later this mo
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Sothebys auction house expect it...

Iceland is requesting the return of medieval manuscripts from Denmark but the University of Copenhagen does not want to give them up as the manuscripts are considered to be the most important collection of ancient Scandinavian...

Sotheby's is auctioning "the ultimate NFT": the source code with which Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Two years ago a large number of manuscripts were taken from Timbuktu for safe keeping

CLEAN: Interior shots of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, shown around during a visit to Jane Austen House on 5 April 2022 in Alton, England

Whimsical drawings, poems and short stories from two humorous books John Lennon produced in the 1960s fetched skyrocketing prices at auction Wednesday (4 JUNE 2014), including $209,000 (USD) for a nine-page...

At the start of the 20th century, an urgent call went out across the Middle East from Arab leaders in Jerusalem: send us your books so that we may protect them for...

Al-Istakhri, a native of Iran, traveled throughout his country and visited a number of central, south, and west Asian lands and, possibly, North Africa, Sicily, and Andalusia. He compiled the Book of the Routes of States (Kitab Masalik...

The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence was compiled in 1270 by Zakariya Qazwini, a judge living in Wasit in Iraq. It remained popular reading for centuries. It is an illustrated compendium, which describes the many marvels...