The accidental discovery of seven medieval parchment fragments in a Bristol library led to a significant breakthrough about King Arthur mythology. A group of scholars from the Universities of ...

But the test merely proved that the parchment was medieval, not the ink of the map itself. A forger would likely have used an old parchment to give his or her work an authentic air and could have ...

The map in question was created by Hipparchus, and it was recently discovered in a medieval parchment that researchers found in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula in ...