The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it has acquired a Flemish illuminated manuscript by Lieven van Lathem, Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies. The Los Angeles Times reports that the book was ...

After almost 2000 years of silence, extraordinary new archaeological discoveries have allowed the first Londoners to speak again. Dozens of the earliest written texts ever found in Britain were ...

A 1,600-year-old manuscript featuring the poems of Virgil is among the collection being digitised by the Vatican Apostolic Library with the help of a Japanese IT firm An illustration of the Dante's ...

An international, multidisciplinary team is using X-rays from SLAC to reveal the hidden text of a medical manuscript by the ancient Greek doctor Galen that was written on parchment in the 6th century ...

Queen Elizabeth I was behind a late 16th century manuscript translation detailing the history of the Roman Empire, researchers believe. Analysing key indicators such as handwriting and paper stock, ...

Troy was of immense importance in the dynastic politics of the Middle Ages, with all the major polities claiming their origins in a Trojan founder. The Roman de Troie (c. 1165) was a French verse ...

Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek monk named Nikodemos was putting together a massive anthology of Byzantine texts on prayer and spirituality, which he would call The Philokalia. He lamented ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Assistant Director for International Operations Patrick J. Lechleitner, returned two 9th century Italian ...