The new “Solid Gold” exhibition is a celebration of bling through the ages and around the world. But is eye candy enough?

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

In a world where survival often meant brute strength, the Book of Kells is a testament to the enduring power of art and faith ...

The exhibition, subtitled "Art, Architecture and Opulence", charts a century of artistic achievement during the reigns of the ...

From Hijazi script dating to the second half of the 7th century to a Holy Quran completed just months after the Ottoman ...

Mughals had a tradition of taking pride in books and leaving a record for posterity, writes .

Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.

Though the invention of the printing press caused a revolution, it took decades to kickstart it into high gear.

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated ... of Kells manuscript is written on vellum — usually prepared by scraping calf skin — and spans 680 pages that ...

It is one of only six manuscripts attributed to the Sarum Master, one of the greatest artists of the medieval period who illuminated pages of vellum from a workshop in Salisbury. The English ...