At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...

Just before the Franco-Malian recapture or liberation of Timbuktu after 10 months of rebel occupation, the mayor of the city, Hallè Ousmane, reported from his exile in Bamako that the Ahmed Baba ...

HARDLY a week passes without an earnest editor’s appealing through the London Times Literary Supplement for news of the whereabouts of some lost but essential piece of script. And even the more ...

On March 4th, the Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit in Perugia returned to the Director of the Salerno State Archive a precious manuscript dating between the 16th and 17th centuries ...

The Noguchi Museum (Photograph by Nicholas Knight. All photographs courtesy of The Noguchi Museum.) In an unprecedented expansion of its online archive, the Noguchi Museum announced last week the ...

Recording, keeping, and using information -- The oral world -- The rise and spread of literacy -- Reasons for recording information -- The impulse to save -- The impulse to destroy -- The technology ...

Learn more about Caedmon’s Hymn, the first poem written in English, and a new copy recently found in Rome thanks to archival ...

The History Department is teaming up with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College to offer new M.A. minor fields in Archival Management and in Cultural ...

The illustrious literary periodical’s archive includes correspondence from writers including Susan Sontag and Oliver Sacks as well as rejected work The New York Public Library has acquired the ...

A letter written by Albert Einstein, the funeral oration delivered by Lord Cecil honoring Georges Clemenceau and two poems by Rudyard Kipling were among the manuscripts sold at an auction held here ...

These days, almost all works of literature are written on computers, from the first inklings saved in a .doc called "notes," to the final, emailed-out draft. They're even, increasingly, read on ...

Some rare Persian manuscripts and original texts on Ayurveda in Sanskrit are among the prized manuscripts being preserved at the Andhra Pradesh State Archives and Research Institute here. In order to ...