X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...

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" ...

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

Carey's 1,200-work art collection is put away in boxes in a Hattiesburg storeroom after the tornado damaged its museums.

In other words, the lived experience of tefillin often emphasizes the container and the command more than the semantic ...

In the autumn of 1952, accused of improper use of his campaign funds, Senator Richard Nixon, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, went on television to defend himself. There had been no ...

Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are expected to ...

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

The Robert L. Cattoi Book Technologies Lab opened late last year on the sixth floor of Lindquist Hall at Wichita State University. It features a collection of bookbinding and printing tools.