Dating back to the 1580s, the world's oldest known book about cheese has recently been transcribed by the University of Leeds in the UK.The book is called "A pamflyt compiled of Cheese, containing ...

Bleu Royale diamond goes for $44 million at auction 00:36. A book believed to have been produced at one of the first Christian monasteries in Egypt around 250-350 AD will go up for auction in June.

It’s not every day that a 1,700-year-old book gets sold. The 104-page Crosby-Schøyen Codex from Egypt just got sold in an auction for $3.9 million (£3.06 million). It was expected to fetch ...

A new exhibit at the Museum of the Bible displays one of the oldest Jewish books discovered in Afghanistan, which contains prayers and poems based on texts from the Hebrew Bible and serves as an ...

A medieval manuscript, believed to be the oldest Jewish book in the world, is now on view in New York City. The Afghan Liturgical Quire, which dates to approximately the year 700 CE, is on display ...

The world’s earliest complete, dated and printed book goes back to May 11, 868. And yet, this work came to the limelight only in the early 20th Century. ... The world’s oldest-known printed book ...