Tucked safely away in a climate-controlled space in Calvin College’s Meeter Center is a medieval devotional manuscript the college has owned since 1912. It recently became an object of deeper interest ...

One of history’s most mysterious texts could be a type of encrypted message created in the 1400s, a new study suggests. The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an ...

St. Louis will be welcoming a new member of the cultural scene this Saturday, August 1. The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, at 3524 Russell Boulevard, just east of Grand, will be displaying a ...

As John O. Hunwick gingerly leafs through the magnificent folios of a collection of 600-year-old manuscripts, tiny flakes of ancient parchment crumble away, and a portion of West Africa’s literate ...

It was the kind of day of which every scholar dreams. Professor John Hunwick was in Timbuktu, and a young man who knew of his interest in African history invited him to see the family library. Leading ...

In 1912, rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich was rooting through dusty chests of manuscripts in Villa Mondragone, a Jesuit college just outside of Rome. The Jesuits had decided to sell some of their ...

Some dragons popped up in the latest summer course led by history instructor William Campbell and two colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. The fanciful creatures are among ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Voynich manuscript (Alamy Stock Photo) A researcher has made new claims about the historical journey of a centuries-old ...

Part of the mystery behind an 'alien' book no one can read has at last been unraveled. Found in a chest of books outside Rome by a dealer in antique books, the Voynich manuscript is among literature's ...