PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in ...

It’s not every day that a 1,700-year-old book gets sold. The 104-page Crosby-Schøyen Codex from Egypt just got sold in an auction for $3.9 million (£3.06 million). It was expected to fetch ...

One of the earliest books in existence is expected to fetch upwards of $2.6m when it goes up for auction later this year.. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, which was written in Coptic on papyrus in ...

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex - written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 AD, and produced in one of the first Christian monasteries - has an estimated sale value of $2.6 million to $3.8 million.

Recognized upon its publication in 1858 as “the oldest book in the world,” the “Teaching” is attributed to a vizier to Izezi, the eighth and penultimate pharaoh of the Old Kingdom’s ...

The book presents the 10 remaining fragments of the fourth codex, the oldest and the only one still in the Americas (the other three are housed in Dresden, Madrid and Paris). Its existence, Turner ...

The University of Leeds acquired the 112-page manuscript, bound in velum– animal skin used to hold together books and significant documents. It’s believed to date to the 1580s.

And, really, the history encapsulated within this 25-page book," Campo said. The Museum of the Bible first opened in 2017 and recently greeted its 3 millionth guest. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ...

He could tell that the books were old — very old. “I look around, there’s nobody there and they are just lying on the ground,” Miller, 75, recalled recently.

A beetle infestation at Hungary’s oldest library puts 100,000 historic books at risk, prompting urgent preservation efforts ...