on a five-metre-long goat skin parchment setting out the case for his canonisation—which failed. Infuriating purple "spots" blot the ancient scroll and many others. On Thursday, scientists ...

Permitted for display only two weeks every two years, the scroll’s short run at the Reagan Library will end on April 24 ... copies were transcribed on parchment or papyrus, which makes ...

6. Using thread made from the leg sinews of a kosher cow, the scribe sews the backs of the parchment together so the stitches aren't visible from the front. Each end of the scroll is sewn onto the ...

About half of the library’s manuscripts were written on parchment, the specially prepared skin of a calf, goat, or sheep. Parchment can be recycled by scraping off any ink and writing on the ...