When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the mid-16th century, a bookbinder picked up a piece of parchment — one that was already ...

Ghostly faces and lines of verse previously invisible to the naked eye have been uncovered in the oldest surviving medieval manuscript written entirely in Welsh. "The Black Book of Carmarthen," dating ...

England's proud maritime history credits Alfred the Great as having established the Royal Navy but evidence from a medieval text show this popularly held belief to be false. Alfred the Great, King of ...

The Lylye of Medicynes is a 15th-century manuscript residing in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. It is a Middle English translation of an earlier Latin treatise on disease, containing case ...

It turns out that people may have been doodling in the margins of their notebooks for more than a thousand years. The Bodleian Library in Oxford used special technology to capture the 3D surface of a ...

Washington: Scientists have unveiled 6th century texts hidden within book bindings of manuscripts that were made by recycling medieval parchments. By fusing two imaging techniques - visible ...

My personal favorite is this. At the top of a page of angular medieval text – full of theological extrapolations and religious devotion – is a cartoon of a deadpan dog. “It’s amazing to think that ...

At the University of Nottingham in Britain, researchers have rediscovered an ancient medicinal elixir that appears to fight a very modern scourge: a deadly drug-resistant bacterial infection rampant ...