RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago ...

Kept by the staff to record the daily administrative business of the library, it has helped previous scholars to reconstruct the early history of the Bodleian and its interactions with the Oxford book ...

It was destroyed in the 12th century, it contained thousands of manuscripts on philosophy, medicine, etc. It dates back to ...

The title and author of a charred scroll recovered from Herculaneum have been identified by researchers. The ancient Roman town of Herculaneum was encased in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption ...

By John Garth Photographs by Kieran Dodds The Radcliffe Camera, part of Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Tolkien once had a vision of this structure as a temple to Morgoth, the villain of Middle-earth.

Bodleian Library collections that have not previously ... The new partnership has come as a result of the University of ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. From the Library of Congress to Oxford’s Bodleian Library, the British Library to the Vatican Library, there is no ...

Finding it: This is a private house in the northern suburbs of Oxford. It is not open to the public. A historic plaque faces the street. Bodleian Library Oxford University's main library houses ...