It may come as no surprise, therefore, that one of the world’s oldest surviving cookbooks, De Re Coquinaria (On the Topic of Cooking) is ancient Roman.

T he first paper book dates back to the ninth century AD, when ancient Chinese scholars wrote down the Diamond Sutra on paper ...

Ranging over centuries and geography, and migrating across syllabi, the book was as familiar to Dutch paintings experts as ...

Britain's oldest book on cheese, which dates from the 1580s, has been transcribed. It has plenty of wisdom to share.

Sacred geometry found in ancient Greek temples is grounded on the idea that the world is created based on a consistent ...

The folklore of the prophecy of St. Malachy says that Pope Francis may be the very last pontiff. Historians say that's ...

Even after 2,000 years of exposure to the intense heat and humidity of the Yucatán jungles, the temples, statues, and murals ...

Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...

A couple of recommended fiction books this month are Sarah Moss’s Ripeness (Picador), an impressive story of love and ...

To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...

The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient Herculaneum ... The scroll also includes a rare book number which appears ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...