One of the world’s most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years. The British Library said Monday that it was ...

One of the world’s oldest Qur’an manuscripts is now online, digitized in full by the British Library. The text dates from the 8th century — making it the oldest of its kind in the institution’s ...

After the successful digital makeover to the Mewar Ramayana, the British Library plans to apply that treatment to other historical documents. It took three years for the British Library to create the ...

The British Library has joined hands with the National Library Board in Singapore with the aim of digitizing an extensive collection of materials related to the island state. This includes Malay ...

The British Library's collection of Ethiopian manuscripts is the richest in Europe, where there are in fact numerous public and private collections of such manuscripts. Three inventory catalogs have ...

More than 250 sacred books, scrolls and scriptures, including selections from over 100 newly digitized texts, are currently on view on the British Library’s new website. “Discovering Sacred Texts” ...