Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to ...

the main trade route between the Roman Empire and China, and no fewer than 15 languages are represented in the collection. The trove of manuscripts brought out from the Dunhuang caves includes ...

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

The Roman de Troie (c. 1165) was a French verse romance on the matter of Troy which circulated widely in medieval French-speaking regions and survives in over sixty manuscripts and fragments (more ...

Newton was fascinated by Starkey's encoded laboratory processes, extracting and interpreting them many times throughout his manuscripts. Like Starkey, Newton believed that ancient Greek and Roman ...

31-32 of The Voynich Manuscript (ed. Raymond Clemens), and ... an inscription naming a 16th-century alchemist in Prague, a ...