Researchers studying the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips have identified what they describe as the earliest known specialized material ...

As festivals bring books into public life, their true power lies in inclusiveness, oral storytelling, and regional diversity, if they overcome elitism and commercialisation.

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago. The work was dated by a group of experts from Australia and Indonesia in a ...

Archaeologists discover the lost 'Book of the Dead' buried for thousands of years ...

The whereabouts of a painting of Robert Burns by Henry Raeburn was unknown for two centuries. Now, the work is on display in ...