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Medieval mega-project: The engineering marvel of the Codex Gigas

Written over 800 years ago, the Codex Gigas (also called the “Devil’s Bible”) is one of the most fascinating and interesting ...
IFLScience

The Black Stains On Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus Explained

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Artnet

The Codex Sassoon, an Ancient Hebrew Bible, Raked in $33.5 Million at Sotheby’s, Making It One of the Most Valuable Manuscripts Ever Sold

The Bible may be the world’s most produced book, but there are few—if any—quite like the Codex Sassoon. Produced by a single, unknown scribe in the Levant around 1,100 years ago, it disappeared for ...
Washington Times

The Da Vinci codex: Treasured sketches of flight on rare display at Smithsonian

In his “Codex on the Flight of Birds,” Leonardo da Vinci made a detailed study of the mechanics of bird flight and concluded that if birds could do it, so could humans, if only they could make a ...