A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes ...

A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works ...

The burning of anthracite coal requires appliances quite Afferent from those used for the burning of wood, or bitumin-)us coal, but the reasons for these differences, are not well un-lerstood by ...

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

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News on social media (from @Michael27553834 and @auctionradar) of this picture catalogued as 'Castilian School of the First Half of the 17th Century' which realised 200,000 EUR over its 25k - 35k ...

The English baluster is one of the earliest classes of drinking glass. These were popular from the last years of the 17th century through to the first half of the 18th, and this early date makes them ...