A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

The ancient Library of Alexandria, built in the city founded by Alexander the Great, was one of the greatest wonders of the ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician known as Galen.

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the ... The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a ...

Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is actually a thin sheet of lead about the size of a playing card. On it are inscribed 10 ...

Researchers believe they may have found a fragment of a long-lost star map compiled by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus ... The text of a Christian manuscript was written on top of the ...