A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...

GMR Transcription marks Women’s Day with a report highlighting women’s historic role in documentation and examining the ...

Although undated, the archaeological context provides a reliable timeframe. Coins minted during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murad IV (1623–1640) were found in the same room, placing their creation ...

Xenophon’s tachygraphy captured Socratic dialogues, influencing Greek shorthand and ensuring the preservation of the spoken ...

The only two known ancient megillahs written by women are part of a new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, whose opening has been postponed due to the Iran war ...

Archaeological Research in Africa explores new historical evidence of one of pre-colonial Dongola's earliest rulers.

The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor was created in 1415 by a medieval scribe who identified himself as Moses, son of Menachem. Sotheby's In the late 1930s, the Nazis stole a 15th-century Jewish prayer book ...

If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes, Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be worth the ...

In the 1470s, a Flemish scribe left some meticulously drafted pages of an illuminated manuscript out to dry, only to find out the next day that his cat had trod over them, leaving inky paw prints on ...

The big news is that Amazon finally has a color version of its e-reader for writers. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft arrives alongside an updated version of the black-and-white model that came out in 2024 ...

The Kindle Scribe (2025) is an excellent update thanks to its larger 11-inch display, lightweight design and easy note-taking. While annotating text is a chore, the Scribe’s enjoyable reading ...