After a 39-year conservation process, the Lough Kinale Book Shrine is on view at the National Museum of Ireland.

Found in 1986 and following a 39-year conservation project, Ireland's oldest and largest medieval book shrine is now on view.

According to The New York Times, Egyptologists found parts of an illustrated “book” that served as a guide to reach Rostau — the Underworld ruled by Osiris, the Egyptian god of death.

How a trove of rare books was found on a Chicago sidewalk — and reunited with its owner It took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to unravel ...

He could tell that the books were old — very old. “I look around, there’s nobody there and they are just lying on the ground,” Miller, 75, recalled recently. “They are beautiful books.” ...