The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation, settlement ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

During a two-day session in Ahmedabad, Congress leaders, including Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, intensified their criticism of the BJP and RSS, particularly regarding religious freedom and ...

5 Mechanocoupling refers to physical load (often shear or compression) causing a physical perturbation to cells that make up a tissue. For example, with every step the Achilles tendon receives tensile ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in ...

Liberal Arts at Queen's is a unique, exciting and challenging programme that allows students to immerse themselves in subjects that are vital to understanding our twenty-first- century world. Through ...