CGTN published an article on the repatriation of the Chu Silk Manuscripts, an over 2,000-year-old Chinese cultural treasure currently held in the United States. Tracing the artifact's journey from its ...

Attention bibliophiles and antiquarians: did you know that some old manuscripts are downright deadly? In modern society, it’s entirely safe to browse through books, but for centuries ...

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The ‘Prophecy of the Popes’ is a series of cryptic Latin phrases in the document that are believed to describe the lineup of church leaders. A 900-year-old prescient manuscript called the ...

New York authorities returned a 16th-century manuscript known as the Hernandarias Manuscript to Paraguay after it was stolen from the country's National Archive over a decade ago and resurfaced at ...

“There are less than 40 surviving manuscripts of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin,” Cambridge notes, “with each one unique since they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes.

A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a rare book dealer on the Upper West Side is being repatriated to ...

MUSCAT: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) has included the Omani manuscript Al Nuniyah Al Kubra (The Great Nuniyah) written by Omani navigator Ahmad ibn ...

Manuscripts of the Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra are among 74 new documentary heritage collections added to the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, taking the total number of ...

Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of manuscripts that included passages from biblical texts, philosophical treatises, classical literature and theological commentaries ...

Medieval manuscripts revealed some bizarre medical treatments (Picture: Getty Images) Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments have been revealed in a new exhibition at the Cambridge ...

These are Tamil Medical Manuscripts preserved at the Institute of Asian Studies has collected 564 copies of these texts, all written in South India, mostly in Tamil, on palm leaves. The texts ...