Everyone’s heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls — that remarkably well-preserved cache of ancient biblical and extra-biblical manuscripts discovered in 1947 in the caves of Qumran. That discovery — ...

One of the first things I did when I moved to Austin a decade ago was visit the Gutenberg Bible housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. As a bibliophile, the importance of that ...

Fragments of an almost 1,000-year-old lost manuscript have been uncovered, and it may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the country was conquered by the Normans in the 11th century.

A decade after archaeologists first set out to find the long-lost Scottish monastery where the Book of Deer was written, they've had their biggest breakthrough yet. The Book of Deer is an illuminated ...

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...