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The “Romance” of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the Middle Ages as it was translated into thirty languages. The original ...
The Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru was unveiled in a dazzling new light on Sunday as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah inaugurated a permanent electric illumination system installed at the seat of the ...
The Codex of Türi, Estonia's oldest dated manuscript, was completed in 1454 and features wooden covers analyzed using dendrochronology and strontium isotope analysis.
Homer’s Iliad, one of the most celebrated and studied epic poems in history, has long resisted successful adaptation. While it has inspired countless modern novelists across diverse traditions, its ...
The Zoo describes the 'Spring Illuminations' light show as an "immersive festival of light sculptures." Across the Zoo, there will be animal and flower-themed artwork made from silk, steel, and LED ...
A free immersive and illuminated art experience will be held in Manchester city centre this month. Spaces Up-Above marks the first Manchester exhibition from world-renowned light artist Rupert ...
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents. By Alan Yuhas Torn ...
The story of haemophiliac Suresh Vaghela who delivered eulogies to 30 gay men at the height of the Aids crisis. Show more The story of how a heterosexual, Indian immigrant to England, ignorant of ...
By collecting evidence from the over 130 early Irish manuscripts that survive ... in the intellectual formation of Europe during the so-called Carolingian Renaissance (c. 750-900). The focus is, first ...
The BnF’s Museum covers the full extent of the Library’s collections, from Antiquity to the present day. Almost 900 outstanding items are on exhibition and regularly renewed, along an itinerary across ...