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

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually unroll the 700-year-old manuscript to 'unlock ... us about archival practices in 16th-century England. It’s a piece of ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.

A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been repurposed in the binding of a 16th-century property record ... glittered with such brightness that it illuminated the whole room.

Although Alchi’s existence is popularly attributed to Rinchen Zangpo, a translator who helped promulgate Buddhism throughout Tibet in the early 11th century, most scholars believe the monastic ...

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 ...