The Memory of the World Register, established by UNESCO in 1992, recognizes documentary heritage of exceptional value.

Preserved at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and codified around the 2nd century BC, the Natyashastra of Bharat ...

Manuscripts of Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni's Natyashastra are among 74 new documentary heritage collections that have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.      Entries on scientific ...

The archives of British naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized understanding of nature and humanity's place within it, are among 74 new additions to a ...

The archives of British naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized ...

Documentary heritage is an essential yet fragile element of the memory of the world. This is why UNESCO invests in safeguarding—such as the libraries of Chinguetti in Mauritania or the archives of ...

Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895 revolutionised medical diagnosis. More than 130 years after that, SpaceX's ...

The first X-ray images ever taken are now part of the Memory of the World Register of United Nations Educational, Scientific ...

A team of four astronauts took the first X-ray of a human hand in space as they floated high above our planet, making medical ...

A Waterloo, Ont. company is celebrating a world’s first on a mission that saw four space tourists orbit the north and south poles earlier this month.

A new chapter in X-ray history has been written over hundreds of miles above our planet. A medical X-ray of a human hand has been taken successfully in space for the first time. The remarkable feat ...