Auctioneer Christian Hesse holds a handwritten letter by Franz Kafka. A century after the death of Franz Kafka, a five-page original manuscript and a letter from the writer were auctioned in Hamburg ...

The 2.5 metre, 4,000-year-old artefact, containing spells and depictions of gods, is both the longest and oldest leather manuscript from ancient Egypt A leather manuscript more than 4,000 years old ...

Parchment fragments discovered in bindings of much later volumes reveal ‘subtle but significant’ variations on Arthurian legend Fragments of a medieval manuscript telling the story of Merlin, which ...