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In Madeleine Thien's speculative fiction about a climate-ravaged future, 7-year-old Lina learns from past voyagers and other ...
Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...
Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...
Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta ...
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...
A rare copy of the Magna Carta from 1300 sits in a display case on April 15, 2025, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. BOSTON — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the ...
Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...
More people today are invoking Sant Kabir to transcend boundaries that choke creative freedom A report from the Mahindra Kabira Festival in Varanasi by NARAYANI GANESHThe price is high but the prize i ...
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...
“I hadn’t even thought about selling products; I was just having fun making them,” he says. “When I realised I could sell them, I was quite excited, as I was spending a fair bit of my savings.
as it constitutes a unique source of knowledge about navigation and shipbuilding techniques used in 15th and 16th century Barcelona," ICUB's press release concluded. Andrea Margolis is a writer ...