When it comes to mastering precision leather crafting, one tool stands head and shoulders above the rest — the skiving knife.

Excavations at the Roman fort Magna in northern England have already yielded three ancient leather shoes, one of which is staggering in size. The team digging through defensive ditches on their ...

John Foster, a biology major at Louisiana State University, is one of five 'American Idol' contestants left vying for the season 23 crown.

This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ancestor, and more.

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 cover.

Title Of Ancient Burnt Herculaneum Scroll Identified For First Time In 2,000 Years Contestants in the ongoing Vesuvius Challenge continue to reveal more information about the calcified scrolls ...

Meet the designer ‘Restraint, clarity, respect for the story’: Devangana Dash’s philosophy for designing book covers An interview with Devangana Dash, winner of the 2025 Oxford Bookstore ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found.

Today I am making a leatherbound spellbook, journal, tome, whatever you want to call it. Here I am using the sewing method that uses cords in the spine to create the awesome looking ridges on the ...

Nigeria-based painter Kelani Fatai talks about the life-changing painting he created for the cover of Tina Knowles' upcoming book "Matriarch." ...