A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging ...

The fragment contains two key episodes, including the only surviving account about Merlin and the early years of Arthur's ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are, those like the Archimedes palimpsest that were hand-written on parchment and other materials long before the invention of the printing ...

In October 1998, a battered manuscript of parchment leaves sold for $2 million to an anonymous bidder at auction. The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by ...

A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the country ...