Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

The "romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated codex on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the ...

3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the future What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are ... years of obscurity and where it rests today, has illuminated many mysteries of ancient Mayan culture, religion, and scholarship.

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

“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 ...

The manuscript is part of the Suite Vulgate du ... gold and precious stones which glittered with such brightness that it illuminated the whole room." The fragile document even contains small ...