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Historian finds scribbles in 500-year-old book, showing Galileo Galilei’s slow and steady rejection of the geocentric world
In January, while examining ancient texts at Italy’s National Central Library of Florence, historian Ivan Malara found an unexpected set of handwritten notes. He was reviewing a 1551 printed edition ...
The Philogelos, a 4th-century manuscript, is the world’s oldest surviving joke book, revealing how Ancient Greeks used humor in everyday life.
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum noticed that an image of a jackal on a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus had been modified with white fluid, according to an ArtNet News report. The ...
An ancient account chronicling the lives of Rome’s rulers has secured a place in the Sunday Times Hardback Non-Fiction Bestseller List, an unusual feat for a work first composed nearly two millennia ...
Recently, the ancient books repository of the Commercial Press reclaimed its old name, Hanfenlou, and - after 77 years - ...
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