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

However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an ...

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of manuscripts that included passages from biblical texts, philosophical treatises, classical literature and theological commentaries ...

Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP/Bram Janssen) For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities ...

Manuscript experts and enthusiasts have lauded Qatar's role in preserving Arabic manuscripts. The commendation came during a seminar organized by the Qatar National Library (QNL) and the Ministry ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

Roman historian Tacitus' ancient manuscripts called Annals have surfaced online. They discuss the persecution of Christians and mention Jesus Christ. Tacitus references Jesus' crucifixion by ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents. By Alan Yuhas Torn ...

A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a rare book dealer on the Upper West Side is being repatriated to ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as ...

New York authorities returned a 16th-century manuscript known as the Hernandarias Manuscript to Paraguay after it was stolen from the country's National Archive over a decade ago and resurfaced at ...