The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

The Codex Gigas (“Giant Book” in Latin) is believed to have been created in the13th century in the Benedictine monastery of ...

The Codex of Türi, a 15th-century Latin-German dictionary, has been studied from every angle. Its oak covers, long overlooked, have revealed surprising information through dendrochronology and ...

In a BBC documentary series earlier this year called “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World,” the eccentric British filmmaker Adam Curtis mounted a pastiche of images ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is often called the "father of astronomy." He's credited with discovering the Earth's precession (how it wobbles on its axis) and calculating the motions of the Sun and ...

The document consisted of the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, which is a collection of Syriac texts Multispectral imaging revealed the manuscript was written over The style of writing in the folios is ...

William Noel: 'It was an extraordinary adventure to read the thoughts of a guy who lived over 2,000 years ago. In the field of old books nothing gets more romantic than that' - Weidenfeld and Nicolson ...

A rare 14th-century Hebrew codex in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will be conserved after a presentation in the forthcoming edition of the TEFAF New York fair (5-10 May).

Four years after a priceless 12th-century travel guide, the Codex Calixtinus, was stolen from a Spanish cathedral, an electrician who worked there, and two members of his family, went on trial for ...