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 ...

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 ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...

From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...