By Sean Coughlan BBC.COM What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. ...
Your tax dollars at work! Portions of Ancestry.com pertaining to New York are free to NY state residents. The New York State Archives partnered with Ancestry to digitize some NY state records of interest to genealogists. The resulting databases are ...
Did you know that the 9th of June is the International Archives Day? You maybe had the opportunity to celebrate it your country, through activities and events organized by National or local archives institutions, or professional associations, like in Senegal, Japan, or ...
By Claire Cozens May 11, 2015 1:05 PM Janaki Karmacharya sits on a plastic chair under the tarpaulin that now serves as her office and despairs at the wreckage of her once magnificent library in the heart of Kathmandu. ...
The New York Times T.H. Tsien, 105, Dies; Scholar of Chinese Books Rescued 30,000 of Them By MARGALIT FOX APRIL 19, 2015 T. H. Tsien was one of the world’s renowned scholars of Chinese bibliography and paleography, the study of ancient ...
Since January 2015 over 25,000 early English texts from 1473-1700 have been released online to members of the public under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication through the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP). Since 2000, the university libraries of Michigan and Oxford and ProQuest have been ...
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced Thursday that it has portions of a rare and important Chinese manuscript called the Yongle Encyclopedia — with 11,095 volumes, the largest book ever written in China. The book was commissioned ...
There are only four original Magna Carta documents from 1215 which survive. Two are kept at the British Library, one at Lincoln Cathedral and one at Salisbury Cathedral. Now, for the first time in history these manuscripts will all be ...
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Daily Photo by University photographer, Jonathan Cohen. In commemoration, today’s photo show students carrying chairs from En-Joie Pavilion to their first class on the opening day of Triple Cities College, Sept. 30, 1946—what ...
On Sept 10, 2014, Aynur de Rouen, the Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Collection interviewed with Patrice Howard, a television reporter/producer with Feature Story News in New York. Feature Story News is a news agency reporting for clients around ...