Five warnings were issued by UK security officials that Serbia may have been planning revenge covert attacks in Europe in the ...

Sotheby’s auction house announced the sale on Wednesday, Shakespeare’s 461st birthday. It said the May 23 sale will be the ...

French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be not local cows or ...

Nothing comes close to a good friend recommending a great book. It's my love language. But be careful who you ask, because you might not share the same taste in genre or style. Books are like music.

As Leslie affirms in the book, Lennon and McCartney early on developed a personal and creative chemistry that allowed them to elevate each other’s work to the timeless classics still heard ...

Wonder how much the tariffs were on this? A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding light on a booming ...

When this wacky $250K pitch hit the Shark Tank stage, even Robert Herjavec couldn’t help but call it “full of BS.” And well, it kind of was, on the surface. The idea sounded more like a gag gift than ...

Books with furry covers are indicative of medieval monks’ role in international trade, researchers said. Lévêque, et al (2025) Royal Society Open Science At the end of the ninth century ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found. It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original ...