Articles from category Humanities

Thanks to X-rays, researchers were able to examine the burials in a non-invasive way. In the photo: the mummy of a 6-year-old child, who died as a result of a head injury, and its X-ray. Photo by Dr. Dagmara Socha.

The true treasures of Latin America. This is what pre-Columbian child mummies tell us

A jungle filled with monkey cries, travelers making their way through rainforests, stone pyramids full of secrets and golden statues... This is how, thanks to pop culture, we think of…

We have a problem, and it's not a trivial one. Photo: Unsplash, CC.

Writing skills on the decline. Does the younger generation struggle with logic?

If you think that in the digital age, the art of writing is fading away... you may be right. Prof. Anna Dąbrowska of the Faculty of Education at the University…

Will authors become redundant? Probably not, although their role will evolve. Photo: s

When AI writes a book: The future of authors in the era of artificial intelligence

Writing a book is no longer an activity exclusive to humans. Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) can develop a plot, analyze readers’ tastes, follow market trends, and even create illustrations and…

Silver book binding from Silver Library of Prince Albrecht of Prussia and Princess Anna Maria, ca. 1555, National Library, SD XVI.F.907, source: Polona.

Text, image, color, margin notes. What do old Polish books say about their readers?

Hardcover or paperback, with or without illustrations, in encyclopedia or pocket format. There are at least as many forms and types of books as there are stories contained within them.…

A beautiful shade of red. And color matters. The green color requires wearing gloves. How do you work with an old book?

Time capsules. Studying the origins and lives of books

Who hasn’t heard their parents warn them, “Don’t scribble in your books!”? Yet, precisely such “crimes” against books, committed by our ancestors over the centuries – notes, underlining, and drawings…

Caspar Waser, Archetypus Grammaticæ Hebrææ Duabus præcipius partibus, Etymologia & Syntaxi absolutus, Basileæ, 1600 (C. Norwid Library, Elbląg, SD. XVI.1480); title page with Samuel Meienreis’s signature and the front endleaf guard from the ‘N’ Psalter. Photo by Dr Dorota Jutrzenka-Supryn.

The turbulent fate of a psalter book: scientists uncover a thousand years of history written on parchment strips

How did fragments of a book – which, legend has it, may have once belonged to the last Anglo-Saxon princess who fled the British Isles a thousand years ago –…