A 3-year-old girl found a 3,800-year-old Canaanite scarab amulet during a family trip to Tel Azeka, Israel. The 'beautiful' ...

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 ...

In medieval Europe, some handcrafted books were bound with skin from an unexpected source: seals. A new analysis of ancient DNA found in medieval books from European abbeys reveals that these seals ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

Now, scientists subjected over a dozen of these book covers to diverse analysis techniques like mass spectrometry and ancient DNA analysis to find that seals were the source of these bindings.