John Clark, The Care of Books Ancient Rome was awash with the written ... Codices leant themselves to being bound between covers of wood or ‘pasteboard’ (pasted-together sheets of waste ...

CAMBRIDGE, England (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A rare sequel to the legendary tale of Merlin and King Arthur was found on a medieval manuscript that had been stitched together and repurposed as a book ...

In the dying years of the Roman Empire, a vassal king in the distant territory of Wales rallied his forces to shake off Roman rule. When the Saxons, too, turned their eye on his kingdom, that ...

There are odd discrepancies in the book's calendar system ... it was not unknown for looters to find blank pages in ancient Maya caches and cover them in fake hieroglyphs to make them more ...

"The precious books uploaded this year, mainly biographies, cover the knowledge of ancient Tibetan society, economy and folk customs, which provide valuable material for the study of Tibetan ...

Ancient Chinese classics are like encyclopedias that cover various subjects such as ... In this new column, "China in Ancient Books," the Global Times will introduce some of the most popular ...

Compiled by reporters Li Xiaokun, Zhang Yunbi and Liu Xiaoli, the articles cover a ... the first book in China studying genglubu, a term used for various editions of ancient handwritten books ...

Rome’s pagan majority, along with the Jewish population of the ancient world ... will tell. The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston ...