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Conservator Sally Kilby and Błażej Mikuła photograph inside the folds of a medieval manuscript that was used as the cover for another book later on. - Cambridge University Library Sign up for CNN’s ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...

In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight. A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been ...

CAMBRIDGE, England (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A rare sequel to the legendary tale of Merlin and King Arthur was found on a medieval manuscript that had been stitched together and repurposed as a book ...

The 1990s saw a revival of the fantasy genre, allowing for legends like King Arthur and Merlin, dragons and medieval knights to find new relevance. Having seen his star power rise after Jurassic Park, ...

It definitely felt like The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin Premiere spent more time world-building because things seemed faster-paced and darker now. Merlin had returned to a chaotic world full ...

(CNN) — Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in ...

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