Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

The Voynich Manuscript is a document that is notable for its strange text, that to date hasn't been decyphered. Theories range from a secret language or code...

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Most of the purchases were pretty standard fare for those who deal in antiquarian books and documents, but as he sorted through the manuscripts, Voynich noticed one particular book which was very unusual - very unusual indeed!

A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.

Researchers have discovered a set of children's doodles in the margins of a medieval manuscript. The discovery sheds new light on the knowledge and education of children in the Middle Ages and their similarities to children of today.

They're evil, pure and simple.

Strange, Trippy And Perverted Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

A curator discovers dogs—lots of them—in Simon Bening’s manuscripts.

Medieval art is really confusing and quite random.

Muslim Heritage - Discover the golden age of Muslim civilisation.

Strange, Trippy And Perverted Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

The Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czech Republic, has created a popular new beer based on a historic recipe.

This article lists down the top 10 unsolved mysteries of the world. This list includes are Rongorongo, Georgia Guidestones, The Wow! Signal, Tamam Shud case, Shugborough Inscription, Kryptos, Taos Hum, Nazca Geoglyphs, and others.

Codex Gigas, also known as ‘the Devil’s Bible,’ is the largest and probably one of the strangest medieval manuscripts in the world. Dark legends surround the tome and its origins and the full page portrait of the Devil increases its air of mystery. But what is the manuscript really about?

The Voynich Manuscript is a document that is notable for its strange text, that to date hasn't been decyphered. Theories range from a secret language or code...

Manuscript title: Jean Thenaud, Introduction to the Kabbalah, dedicated to King Francis I Manuscript summary: This parchment manuscript contains the mystic text of the Kabbala in cursive script, illustrated with numerous highly colorful drawings with allegorical, cosmological, and liturgical themes. Origin: Geneva (Switzerland) Period: 16th century Image source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 167: Jean Thenaud, Introduction to the Kabbalah, dedicated to King Francis I (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0167).

Scribes in the 16th century clearly had too much fun with these *ahem* questionable illustrations…

The Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research in Timbuktu, Mali, holds a collection of 30,000 of the world's most precious ancient manuscripts. Or it did until recently. On January 23rd, al-Qaida-linked extremists, who invaded Timbuktu almost a year ago, ransacked the library and set it on fire. The fire raged for eight days straight. What the extremists did not know was that only about 2,000 of the hand-written documents had been moved to the new library building.However, they didn't ...

Josephine Livingstone writes about the mysterious medieval Voynich manuscript, and code-breakers’ differing opinions on its meaning.

The art of writing music, of actually placing the notes and related markings on paper, has changed dramatically over the centuries.

Strange, Trippy And Perverted Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Saint Brendan (also referred to by his various epithets ‘the Navigator’, ‘the Voyager’, ‘the Anchorite’, and ‘the Bold’) was an Irish saint who lived between the 5th and 6th centuries AD known for his legendary voyage in search of the ‘Island of Paradise’ or the ‘Land of Promise of the Saints’.

The Blemmyes are an example of various species of bizarre creatures rumored, in antiquity and later, to inhabit remote parts of the world. The Blemmyes origins began as a tribe inhabiting the lower parts of Nubia, but later became fictionalized as a race of creatures believed to be acephalous (headless) monsters who had eyes and mouths on their chest.

Vikings lapbook. Free Viking lapbook, printables and unit study for homeschoolers. Your kids will love this hands-on unit.

Carolingian manuscript from the abbey St. Peter in Salzburg with the labors of the twelve months [818] Codex 387 fol-90v Salzburg [um 818] - Vienna Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Playing ball games is an activity played by children around the world. But while parents might worry that their sons and daughters might get scrapes and bruises, in the Viking world such a game could end with an axe being driven into an opponents head.

Jedi master Yoda spotted in 14th-century manuscript

A prefect was a military or civil official in Ancient Rome. Prefects ranged from low to high-ranking military of civil officials of the Roman Empire.

The Sacramentary of Drogo, one of the gospel illustrated manuscripts from the Carolingian Revival. wikipedia Western Europe came crawling out of the "Dark Ages" with the arrival of Frankish kings, whom, in collaboration with the papacy in Rome,...

Want to try to crack the code of the Voynich Manuscript, written in an unknown language with unrecognizable illustrations? You might soon be able to buy a precise copy of the book ... for some $8,000.

Pangur Bán is probably the most famous surviving poem from Early Ireland. Composed by an Irish monk sometime in the 9th century AD, the text compares the scholar's work with the activities of a pet cat, Pangúr Bán

This bizarre medieval manuscript has never been deciphered

Followers of our Twitter account may remember an image we posted a few months ago on #InternationalHugAMedievalistDay, showing a woman being interrupted from her reading by a man trying to embrace her. It turns out that the story behind the image involves ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, female intellectuals, Epicureans, misogyny...