Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

It was first thought to be a 14th century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.

For example, as part of the Limburg monastic collections of manuscripts and old prints that ended up in Utrecht University Library from Maastricht in the mid-19th century, and as part of the ...

Praised by the ancient Greek literary giants Homer and Euripides for its superb quality nearly 3,000 years ago, Cyprus’ Commandaria is the world’s oldest recorded and named wine. Despite its ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean.

Amid the rubble of the seven-century-old Great Omari Mosque library, Palestinian researcher Hanin al-Amassi carefully holds the remnants of ancient books and manuscripts. She gently removes the ...

(AP video shot by Mayuko Ono) Shizuyo Takeuchi, 94-year-old Tokyo raid survivor, shares her experience in front of a map of the areas damaged during the 1945 Tokyo Firebombing at the Center of the ...