The Papyrus Conservation Summer Seminar at the University of Michigan is the only one of its kind in the Americas, according ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and dust. Ancient manuscripts are more than just remnants of antiquated ink on ...

Learn how ancient sheeppox virus DNA was found on the parchment of medieval manuscripts across Europe.

Historical documents considered lost to the ravages of time—like crumbling parchment thousands of years old or medieval manuscripts whose ink long ago faded away—are being given a new life thanks to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 19—A Tahlequah man has continued his efforts to not only reunite 1,100-year-old-plus manuscript texts, but to help determine ...

Patna: The state govt has intensified efforts to preserve and digitise rare manuscripts under the Centre’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Specks of eraser dust contain enough DNA to identify the animal products used to in books. In May 2006, Tim Stinson travelled to ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert. "It's a magnificent, extraordinary town," said ...

In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales around the world. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence of this behavior being described in ...

A museum guard picks up boxes holding ancient manuscripts, which were partially damaged by Islamist rebels, at the Ahmed Baba Institute, or Ahmed Baba Centre for Documentation and Research, in ...

'Codex Syriacus', an ancient copy of the Gospels in Syriac, is seen on display in St. Catherine's Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt. Reuters ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT — At St. Catherine’s Monastery at the ...

The history of a great crossroads for ideas and industry is recorded in the ancient manuscripts of Mali, says Christopher Reardon, a freelance writer. As many as a million of the manuscripts survive, ...