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December 24-25, 31, and January 1    CLOSED December 26 – January 4   M-F – By appointment only January 7-27                         M-F – 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Closed ...

By Lauren E. Bohn, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) – More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls – and thousands of years after they were written – Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images of the ancient ...

COPENHAGEN (AFP).- A Danish researcher has stumbled across the first fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark’s national archives. Entitled “The Tallow Candle”, the tale tells the story of a candle that has difficulty finding its place in ...

WASHINGTON, December 18 (RIA Novosti) – Long-lost photographs of four undocumented Russian crown jewels have been discovered in the rare books room of a US library, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said Tuesday.   © Photo U.S. Geological Survey Department ...

By Eric Coker| DECEMBER 17, 2012 James Carrigg has no doubts that the Class of 2012 will make the right decisions in the future. “As you all venture forth from this great University to a new job, additional education, or to start your ...

By Ethan Day| DECEMBER 17, 2012 Binghamton University is the final teaching post for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herbert P. Bix. The professor of history and sociology, 74, will retire at the end of the fall 2012 semester, following a remarkable career studying 19th- ...

How a team of scholars decrypted a secret language—and discovered the last known work of the American theologian. By Ben Schreckinger For more than a century, a small, leather-bound book has sat collecting dust and attracting little attention in a gray ...

Cambridge University Library is to release digital versions of some of the most significant religious manuscripts in the world – following on from last year’s release of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts and notebooks.  Launched in December last year (2011), the Cambridge ...

This broadside is part of a series of broadsides printed by Stu McCarty and published by the Bellevue Press, Binghamton, NY.  The Christmas Poem is printed on a light blue-green paper with dark green and orange-red lettering.  The broadside is 43 cm ...

By Katie Ellis| DECEMBER 7, 2012 Graduating senior Matthew Comite will represent his classmates as the undergraduate student speaker and Jason Loew will speak on behalf of his fellow graduate students at the Fall Commencement ceremony at noon, Sunday, Dec. 16, in the ...