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For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register. Cutting-edge techniques have revealed it for the first time.
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 ...
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 ...
Part of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge ...
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur ...
The king agrees – a good decision ... "The Suite Vulgate du Merlin tells us about Arthur's early reign, his relationship with the knights of the round table and his heroic fight with the Saxons.