An exhibition at the Walters Art Musuem traces the appearences of cats in medieval manuscripts, from Europe, Asia, and the ...

The recently radiocarbon dated copy of the 7th-century Qur'an at the University of Birmingham. A 1,500-year-old parchment could be one of the oldest known copies of the Quran, possibly dating back to ...

Harvard researchers were initially skeptical when a database project indicated that an extremely rare parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence was in a small records office in Southern ...

The manuscript was discovered by two researchers in Sussex, England. The Sussex Declaration, the only other manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence besides the 1776 version at the National ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A second parchment copy of the Declaration ...

Study comes as 'Great Isaiah,' a 24-foot-long text parchment found with the Dead Sea Scrolls, set to be displayed by the ...

Danielle Allen is a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post. Two weeks ago, my research partner, Emily Sneff, and I had the good fortune to be able to ...

LONDON (AP) — A British university disclosed Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and may have been written close to the time of the ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. By Christopher de Hamel. Allen Lane; 632 pages; £30. ON MAY 4th 1945, when Allied troops entered Adolf Hitler’s mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps, they ...