FRAGMENTS of a long lost tale about King Arthur and his close friend and wizard Merlin may lead historians to the legendary Holy Grail. Handwritten 800 years ago, the texts tell of the Battle of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservator Sally Kilby and Błażej Mikuła photograph inside the folds of a medieval manuscript that was used as the cover for ...

Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in a set of 16th-century books have revealed long-lost tales of Merlin, the Magician. Merlin is one of the key characters in the legend of King Arthur and ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...

In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight. A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been ...

So, the season finale is upon us and Morgana’s greatest day is at hand. The Cup of Life (last seen in the season one finale Le Morte d’Arthur) has somehow fallen into the hands of the Druids since ...

There’s a lot you can do with Arthurian myth, from the gory opera of Excalibur, to the faux-historical grit of Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 King Arthur, to Guy Ritchie’s bizarre mix of high fantasy and geezer ...

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