New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on the use of seal products across Europe during the middle ages, ...

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 ...

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

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

Other than the color, the reason why the monks chose to bind their books in seal skin remains a mystery. “We have no written records to explain why monks chose to cover these manuscripts in ...

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Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

EXCLUSIVE: Tutankhamun died over 3,000 years ago and, after DNA studies shed startling new light on his heritage, AI has ...