Must a film necessarily feature a pale-faced Cillian Murphy, soggy patchwork fields, or a miserable conversation over pints of Guinness to be considered quintessentially Irish? Certainly not!  Amidst ...

In a dimly lit monastic scriptorium in13th-century Constantinople, a group of scribes unknowingly scrubbed away what could have been one of humanity’s most significant scientific manuscripts.

By combining multispectral imaging with computer vision methods, Tel Aviv University researchers give scholars new tools to ...

Echoes of Knowledge Through Time The story of the oldest libraries begins in places where clay tablets and scrolls carried wisdom across centuries. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh guarded ...

For more than three decades, Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub has stood as one of Portland’s most recognizable gathering places.

Babe, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Secret of Kells are all outstanding international family movies that will enchant audiences ...

Your tour starts with a visit to the National Gallery of Ireland, home to one of Dublin’s finest collections of Irish and European art. Here you’ll begin to explore Irish culture and history through ...

During his working visit to the United States, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan toured the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Accompanied by the museum’s Chief Operations Officer Aaron ...

In bygone ages, Christian clerics would spend decades hunched over scrolls of vellum and parchment, ornamenting the text with scenes of questing knights, creeping chimeras, spiralling verdure, and ...

When it comes to hidden gems on the University of Chicago campus, it’s hard to beat the assortment of carved stone men, beasts and inanimate objects clinging to various buildings. But aside from the ...

The “Romance” of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the Middle Ages as it was translated into thirty languages. The original ...