They are popular not just for their literary value but for their price tags. These books are priceless pieces of history.

illuminated our view of Maya life. During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church’s Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices ...

Books, manuscripts, photographs ... Pakistan and Afghanistan for over 200 years from the 16th century. As the name suggests, The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence focuses on the ...

The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first Creole governor in the Americas.

A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a ...

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

Constructed in the 16th century using mortar bricks and lime plaster, the helical step-well descends seven levels and contains 11 rooms below ground. Sen said, adding that her aim is to raise ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales had an eye for the dramatic. In one lamentation scene, Jesus slumps against his mother’s arm, his limp corpse gray and speckled with ...

The manuscript, valued at $20,000, was taken from Paraguay's National Archive and recovered after appearing in a 2013 ...

Combined with an important selection of parade and ceremonial weapons and armour from the 16th century, these monumental tapestries take visitors into the world of Renaissance history, fashion and ...

Many also believe the oracle has predicted the return on the 17th century plague in the words: 'A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.' In an even more ...