Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are ... of the earliest versions of the Greek Bible. When the Christian monks were unwilling to loan the ancient scrolls to Tischendorf ...

The book was one of the most significant works of ancient Greek mathematics. The manuscripts were acquired by Dutch orientalist and mathematician Jacob Golius during his travels to the Middle East ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician known as Galen.

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden University in the Netherlands.