Books are fragile things. That is why old books are so precious to us—they've survived the ravages of time. Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are, those like the Archimedes ...

Cambridge University researchers successfully deciphered a 700-year-old manuscript fragment containing rare stories of King Arthur and the wizard Merlin. The manuscript, part of the Suite Vulgate ...

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 ...