The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and many more pages have yet to be found. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from ...

A newly discovered Dr. Seuss manuscript featuring the Cat in the Hat and celebrating the United States will be published next year, just in time for America’s 250th anniversary. “Sing the 50 United ...

India will host the first-ever international Manuscript Heritage Conference in September, which will be attended by global scholars, thought leaders and cultural custodians in the subject. The ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Sometimes, a great find is hiding right beneath one’s nose in ...

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle. The discovery was announced by the University of ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...

In the world of writing and editing, “style” can refer to two different things. The first tends to elicit more interest: style as authorial, literary style, encompassing voice and tone, how you choose ...

A researcher studying multispectral images of the famous Voynich Manuscript has identified previously hidden columns of letters on its first page. The three columns—two bearing letters of the alphabet ...