This book is among nearly 100 found in France by researchers at the University of Cambridge to be bound with seal skin. The ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures ...

Drew Kayvani is addicted to croquet. She played the lawn game in her backyard as a child, but it wasn’t until she retired and ...

Plans call for the two long-closed historic structures to be replaced by an ultra-luxury, 17-story Casa Cipriani condo, hotel ...

The scholar who identified the message has now found several others, which show that the Luxor Obelisk still has something to ...

But the opening of La Fondation, a 58-room hotel with interiors by the New York-based design firm Roman and Williams, might ...

From very far away, into northern France." The books were bound in the ... Because there was one text in the 13th century that mentions the fact that in Rome, they had too many seal skins and ...

After a failed experiment with decriminalization, Oregon’s liberal stronghold tries to chart a path out of the fentanyl ...

Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and 13th century French monasteries are ... founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries.

France. The three-story Coral Reef ... style with retro Art Deco touches, an approach 13th Floor says will fit well with its historic mid-Century neighbors in terms of both look and scale.