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 ...

Inside a charred book, pages dotted in soot stains tell the story of how San Francisco rose to the epicenter of a gold rush. Barely escaping the 1906 earthquake, this book should’ve burned completely.

An Upper Arlington Public Library patron checked out “All the Ways We Said Goodbye,” a 2020 historical fiction novel, shortly before going on a trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s unclear if they ...

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 ...

A long-lost library book has been reunited with its owner. “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,” who was a British illustrator and author, was first added to the Worcester Public Library’s collection ...