3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the future What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a ...

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

A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations and bizarre inventions, that shaped how people viewed the world beyond their ...