An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world—including one example of a 15th-century "keyboard cat" ...

The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library in 1911 by ...

The enigmatic Voynich manuscript has baffled scholars, cryptographers, and historians for centuries. Recent technological advances and scholarly efforts offer new insights into its mysterious contents ...

Researchers have unearthed what is believed to be the earliest chronicle of a miracle performed by Jesus in his childhood. The remarkable narrative was discovered in an ancient Egyptian manuscript, ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / For the Washington Post via Getty Images The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. returned a centuries-old Gospel manuscript ...

The museum determined that the handwritten manuscript, which is more than a thousand years old, had been looted from the monastery during World War I. By Jane Arraf The Museum of the Bible in ...

A new study looking at a "treatise on unexplained phenomena" written between 1355 and 1382 has found references to the infamous "Shroud of Turin". The Shroud of Turin is a large piece of linen cloth ...