The first Bible I ever purchased was a New International Version Student Life Bible; it was black with neon pink and green lettering. I picked it up from the bookstore of a church I was invited to in ...

The box cover that serves as evidence of the Zidanku silk manuscripts' circulation in the United States is presented at a handover ceremony in Qingdao, Shandong province, on June 20.[Photo/China Daily ...

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 ...

Those who study human culture must grapple with what amounts to an incomplete data set, since researchers are limited to poring over the books, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts ...

The ancient Zidanku Silk Manuscripts from the Warring States period are displayed during a handover ceremony at the Chinese Embassy in the United States in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2025.

Tens of thousands of manuscripts were smuggled out of Timbuktu under jihadists’ noses, containing a wealth of knowledge about science, governance and peace-making. Now the public is getting a look. By ...

Manuscripts can be described in varying levels of detail, and manuscript collections are cataloged in varying degrees of completeness. Some libraries have described their collections in full, others ...