KOTTAYAM: Long before the advent of paper, Kerala had an elaborate method for preserving ancient knowledge and wisdom. The ...

An expert works on the restoration of an ancient palm-leaf manuscript at Fudan University Library. Photo: Courtesy of Fudan ...

On Friday, during his visit to Heidelberg University in Berlin, Germany, Minister Pandey discussed the return of palm-leaf ...

The Oriental Research Institute (ORI) here has taken steps for digitisation of its collection of nearly 70,000 palm leaf and paper manuscripts in Sanskrit and Kannada, and the first phase of the ...

While many seek material inheritance, Dr Valluri Vijay Hanumantha Rao embarked on a unique quest to reclaim his ancestor’s ...

While lontar is a common, widely used designation for the type of palm-leaf writing material used in the vast majority of surviving manuscripts, the nipah is rare and not commonly thought of as a ...

On view are palm-leaf manuscript pages reunited after having been separated, many with colophons providing new information about when and for whom they were made. The installation includes ...

Nigel Wilson, a classics professor at Oxford, examines a leaf from an old manuscript housed in a Cambridge University library. He identifies it as a page from the missing Archimedes palimpsest ...