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Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...
Now, scientists have uncovered lost medieval tales of both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician, hidden inside another book. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually ...
What’s more, it has been determined to be part of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, part of the Vulgate Cycle, a medieval narrative on the lives of King Arthur and Merlin. Though popular in its time ...
Part of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge ...
A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur ...
A piece of parchment wrapped around a 16th century volume of property records has turned out to be a treasure beyond ...
AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius The medieval legends of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, the knight Sir Lancelot, the magician Merlin, and the quest for the Holy ...
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.
An intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan deeds register for nearly 400 years. Researchers have finally been able to reveal it with cutting ...
It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court. In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later ...