Ancient Romans once valued literature and public reading, yet over time, access to books declined dramatically. This video ...

"The Lost Library," by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, is the 2024 Kids Reading Across Rhode Island selection, the Rhode Island Center for the Book has announced. The New York Times bestseller is about ...

Buried beneath volcanic ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Herculaneum papyri represent one of the greatest ...

The Library of Lost Books project is trying to collect items looted from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, known as the Hochschule. It was also home to one of the world’s largest and ...

Fold-up geometrical illustrations in the first English edition of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry,’ published London, 1570. John Dee wrote a mathematical preface to the book. (© Royal College of ...

It’s Christmas Eve and Isla is lost. Wandering through the vaults and tunnels of Waterloo, she is searching for something – a gift for her mother, after a tumultuous year past. But nothing’s quite ...