The Enquirer's Just Askin' series aims to answer the questions that no one seems to have an answer for, not even Google. The Mercantile Library has been around since the 1800s and has accrued quite a ...

(JTA) In a new exhibit, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered. According to the museum’s dramatic claim, the tiny book is a ...

In 2023, a curious vellum-bound manuscript from the 1580s appeared at auction in the U.K. for the first time. Across more than 100 pages an unnamed author explored the qualities, processes, and ...

Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese is revealing its fascinating and sometimes nauseating contents to the public for the first time. A ...

Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being urgently removed from a medieval abbey in Hungary in a desperate bid to save them from a devastating beetle infestation. The 1,000-year-old ...

Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.