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 ...

Today, Sotheby’s will auction a copy of the first English-language book printed in America. “The Whole Booke of Psalmes,” or the Bay Psalm Book, as it is now known, is expected to sell for ...

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.

Kittens and Cats: A First Reader is a children's book written by Eulalie Osgood Grover back in 1911. The 84-page book features cats and kittens dressed in various costumes and placed in funny ...

The Oldest Book Written in the Americas Is a Mayan Guide to Astronomy. By Allison Eck Monday, September 12, 2016 NOVA Next NOVA Next. The Grolier Codex helped ancient Mayans track astronomical ...

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 ...

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are ...

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 ...