The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

A shroud of mystery remains conceals the knowledge contained within the lost works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.

Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.

Meaning of Social PeaceBased on the general meaning of peace - defined either by the absence of negative phenomena like violence or the presence of ...

previously told Live Science. The Egyptian priest Manetho, who lived during the third century B.C., started the dynasty ...

You place tiny little seeds in dirt — DIRT! — and you keep it damp. Wait a week or so, and something grows. Wait a bit longer ...