Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

Fold-up geometrical illustrations in the first English edition of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry,’ published London, 1570. John Dee wrote a mathematical preface to the book. (© Royal College of ...

When one long-lost copy of "Your Child, His Family and Friends" was last checked out from the San Antonio Public Library, San Antonians were on the homefront of World War II, the movie adaptation of ...

You may have been late returning a library book, but how about 50 years late? A customer recently returned some books to the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a ...

The Library of Lost Books project is trying to collect items looted from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, known as the Hochschule. It was also home to one of the world’s largest and ...

"The Lost Library," by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, is the 2024 Kids Reading Across Rhode Island selection, the Rhode Island Center for the Book has announced. The New York Times bestseller is about ...

Deep within a particle accelerator, theoretical physicist Giorgio Angelotti is hard at work. He sets a black cylinder on a mount, bolts it down, then runs through some safety checks before retreating ...