Words like “bibliokleptomania” highlight the remarkable flexibility of the English language. A single complex term can weave together psych...

A comparison of Jains in India and Jews in Europe explores why one civilisation enabled coexistence while the other descended into exclusio...

Charles Darwin, renowned for his theories on evolution, also privately contemplated marriage. Before proposing to Emma Wedgwood, he meticul...

Eighteenth-century workers in Herculaneum unearthed a unique Roman library preserved by the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. These carbonized papyr...

Amidst the arid expanse of the Egyptian desert, a serendipitous find in 1945 revealed hidden scrolls within a clay vessel. These codices pr...

The Wellcome Collection in London is returning over 2,000 Jain manuscripts to the Jain community. These sacred texts, held for over a centu...

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A chance discovery by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947 led to the unearthing of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient manuscripts found i...

Pulverulent is more than just an adjective; it is a linguistic tool that captures texture, atmosphere and the passage of time in a single e...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Samrat Samprati Museum in Gujarat, highlighting its message of peace and non-violence amidst g...

India's Ministry of Culture begins a nationwide survey to map its manuscript heritage. This initiative aims to create a comprehensive digit...

A missing piece of the famous Archimedes Palimpsest has been found. This ancient Greek document, scraped clean in the Middle Ages, holds wr...

A recent exhibition in New Delhi showcased South Asian manuscripts, highlighting their journey across Asia over two millennia. The exhibiti...

A manuscript depicting Jesus Christ's childhood has been decoded by researchers in Germany.

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The Codex Sassoon dates to the late ninth to the early tenth century.

The one-year course revolves around the study of history and literature, and deciphering historical manuscripts.