In France, the “literary sensation of the summer” is a novel from 1869 by Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas that was recently re-discovered by an “unassuming retired lecturer” ( see… Read more »

“A secretive encounter with a Bedouin in a desert valley” has led to “the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll” that, if authenticated, would be the… Read more »

“A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published on Friday for the first time” since it was rediscovered as part… Read more »

“One of the world’s rarest books — a belligerent 42-page rant written, published and signed by Galileo in 1607 — is likely to be the star of the Antiquarian Book… Read more »

“For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure — a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of… Read more »

A inquiry made under Britain’s new Freedom of Information Act has revelead that “More than 8,000 items ranging from 16th century maps to copies of the Beano have gone missing… Read more »

It started in a remote hamlet in southern Spain, when the town of Alhama decided to organize an exhibition to honor the 400th anniversary of the publication of the book… Read more »

In what is seen in the UK as a “major coup,” a “multi-million pound lottery grant has secured for Scotland the most important literary archive to become available in the… Read more »

“If you read a medieval English or French text, for example, it is difficult to grasp its meaning,” observes Zeina Hashem Bec. But “Old texts written in Classical Arabic such… Read more »

“French scientists and historians are trying to unravel the secrets behind a cache of documents hidden nearly two centuries ago inside one of Paris’s best-known equestrian statues,” reports an Agence… Read more »