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`Kangaroo drawing` in Portuguese manuscript may rewrite Oz history

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 13:36

A tiny drawing of a kangaroo in a 16th-century Portuguese manuscript dated between 1580 and 1620 might rewrite Australian history, as researchers believe that the images of the marsupial were circulating even before Dutch ship Duyfken came to Australia.

Stolen manuscripts worth 4 mn euros recovered in Italy

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 08:57

Italian police said on Friday they had recovered 36 manuscripts by novelist Giovanni Verga worth some four millions euros (USD 5.25 million). The manuscripts were stolen in the 1930s.

Mysterious Voynich manuscript has `genuine message`

Last Updated: Monday, June 24, 2013, 12:11

The world`s most mysterious medieval manuscript Voynich`s message, which has puzzled cryptographers, mathematicians and linguists for over a century, could hold a genuine message, a new study has claimed.

Charlie Chaplin's unused manuscript found in Italy

Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2012, 08:32

The Cinetecta of Bologna film archive in Italy`s Bologna city has found a five-page manuscript by Charlie Chaplin.

Indian manuscript on Unesco`s world register

Last Updated: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 18:05

An illustrated Indian manuscript recounting the history of Mughal ancestor Timur has been inscribed on Unesco`s Memory of the World Register, an official said Thursday.

Former aide attacks Sarah Palin in new book

Last Updated: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 18:20

A leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin`s trusted advisers says that she broke state election law during her campaign in 2006.

Story of Newton`s encounter with apple goes online

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 09:28

An 18th-century account of how Newton developed the theory of gravity was posted to the Web Monday, making the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.