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 ...

A new six-stamp collection is set to highlight some of the Norse rulers in the Isle of Man's history. The Age of the Sea Kings: The Medieval Kingdom of Man and the Isles, was created with Manx artist ...