This tranquil Mahanta Asthal Ashram, a mutt situated in the nondescript Ukhra village of Andal block of West Burdwan district ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the ...

The book will be of particular interest, of course, to fans of the Grateful Dead, many of whom treasure any knowledge about ...

Handwriting comparisons can authenticate a signature or manuscript. In some cases, all of it taken together can’t solve a historical puzzle. For example, there are five known manuscript copies ...

With its sumptuous painted miniatures in tempera and ink, gold and silver, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most treasured illuminated manuscript of the collections of Château de ...

This original manuscript is one of many of the James Herriot stories stored at the World of James Herriot in Thirsk, North Yorkshire. James Herriot is the pen name of James Alfred Wight OBE a ...

In October 1998, a battered manuscript of parchment leaves sold for $2 million to an anonymous bidder at auction. The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by ...

The World of Islamic Manuscripts” opened at the Beinecke, exhibiting Yale’s collection of Islamic manuscripts, one of the ...

When I was young, I never liked history in school. It was always a dry topic, capped off by having to remember a string of names and dates of things that I wasn’t interested in anyway.

For starters, this book came from a so-called “lost manuscript” found by his widow ... The tome tells the story of a brief time in history, not long after the Beat Generation had risen ...