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Webcast from the Library of Congress: For the first time in history, the Library’s first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation along with two artifacts associated with the creation of the document were brought together at the Library for a photo ...

Has your cat ever walked across your keyboard? Well, it’s not a new problem. Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel recently Tweeted this photo of a 15th century book with… you guessed it… cat paw prints in ink on the pages! ...

Webcast from the Library of Congress: Chasing Krüger’s Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy New computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of ...

By LYDIA POLGREEN TIMBUKTU, Mali — When the moment of danger came, Ali Imam Ben Essayouti knew just what to do. The delicate, unbound parchment manuscripts in the 14th-century mosque he leads had already survived hundreds of years in the ...

Timbuktu’s Ancient Libraries: Saved by Locals,  Endangered by a Government By Vivienne  Walt One week after Islamic militants fled Timbuktu under French bombing strikes, preservationists are deeply uncertain about how to  continue protecting the city’s priceless ancient documents — a ...

Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III By JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL Published: February 4, 2013 LEICESTER, England — In one of Britain’s most dramatic modern archaeological finds, researchers here announced on Monday that skeletal remains found ...

Shall I Encode Thee In DNA? Sonnets Stored On Double Helix by Adam Cole January 24, 2013 William Shakespeare, depicted in this 17th century painting, penned his sonnets on parchment. Now his words have found a new home … in ...

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 ...