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

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

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 ...

The answer may lie with the British Royal Navy. Since its inception in the 16th century, the navy served three regular meals to align with the shipboard routine. This included a simple breakfast ...

Ultimately, she was beheaded. Her tower stands behind her in the garden. In the corner of the painting, St Catherine of Alexandria, Egypt, reads an illuminated manuscript. She is the patron saint of ...

It’s believed that the tomato wasn’t grown in Britain until around the 1590s. In the early 16th century, Spanish conquistadors returning from expeditions in Mexico and other parts of ...

A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King ...

1554, the opening year of the accession of Ahmed Shah III to the throne of Gujarat, is also memorable for the arrival in Gujarat of famous Turkish author, admiral and nautical expert Sidi Ali Bin ...