Today, many people in India follow the religious and cultural tenets we now call Hinduism. But where did the belief systems ...

Attention bibliophiles and antiquarians: did you know that some old manuscripts are downright deadly? In modern society, it’s entirely safe to browse through books, but for centuries ...

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The ‘Prophecy of the Popes’ is a series of cryptic Latin phrases in the document that are believed to describe the lineup of church leaders. A 900-year-old prescient manuscript called the ...

New York authorities returned a 16th-century manuscript known as the Hernandarias Manuscript to Paraguay after it was stolen from the country's National Archive over a decade ago and resurfaced at ...

“There are less than 40 surviving manuscripts of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin,” Cambridge notes, “with each one unique since they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes.

A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a rare book dealer on the Upper West Side is being repatriated to ...

The Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and the Natyashastra are now part of UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World Register’, announced Culture & Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday (April 18). “This global ...

Manuscripts of the Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra are among 74 new documentary heritage collections added to the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, taking the total number of ...

Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of manuscripts that included passages from biblical texts, philosophical treatises, classical literature and theological commentaries ...

Rigveda is the first literary documents in ... This richly illustrated manuscript was written and created twenty two years into the reign of the great Mughal emperor and a descendant of Timur ...

The register consists of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, sound or video recordings as a documentary heritage of humanity. The development comes on World Heritage Day on April 18. STORY ...