For a long time, the exact material that was used to make these manuscript covers, called chemises, has remained unclear. Now, scientists subjected over a dozen of these book covers to diverse ...

Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great.

the colour and the materials – not only the content. Sowiński adds: We should remember that, unlike commercials or posters, the existence of a book is stretched over time, and we judge the cover at ...

French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be not local cows or ...

"Right now, we have no plans for further study in this area. But I hope to return to studying book cover materials at some point in the future. Still, Alar and his dendrochronologist colleagues ...