A piece in New Zealand matched one in Los Angeles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A torn 2,300-year-old mummy wrapping — covered ...

RALEIGH — Dead men tell no tales, but there’s new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship harbored books among the booty. In an unusual find, researchers have discovered shreds ...

This week: Producer George Ingmire and I begin a new series, Thinking Outside the Book, about the unusual uses and pleasures of books in readers' lives. First up: A visit with Eli Boyne, library ...

To contact Mary Greenwood, email [email protected]. Joan North's "Fragments of Grace" is a novel that sometimes reads like a mystery or memoir. In the opening scene, Grace is at her own funeral. Soon ...

The first English prose version of the Arthurian legend was penned by Sir Thomas Malory, a knight of uncertain identity who is thought to have turned to a life of crime during England’s Wars of the ...

There are cartons of this stuff in attics all over America — the poems, pensées and grocery lists of yearning, dissatisfied people who at some time wished for an emotional coherence that was beyond ...

Parchment fragments discovered in bindings of much later volumes reveal ‘subtle but significant’ variations on Arthurian legend Fragments of a medieval manuscript telling the story of Merlin, which ...