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Archaeology Jan 11, 2024

A princess's psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript found

A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess ...

Archaeology Feb 13, 2015

Bejewelled backdrop to coronations did not cost a king's ransom

Research into England's oldest medieval altarpiece – which for centuries provided the backdrop to Westminster Abbey coronations – has revealed that it cost no more than the rather unprincely equivalent of eight cows.

Archaeology Sep 6, 2010

Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog

Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland's National Museum said on Monday.