In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...

Now, scientists have uncovered lost medieval tales of both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician, hidden inside another book ... Once a widely read medieval text, fewer than 40 copies survive ...

Variations on the classic Merlin and King Arthur legends span hundreds ... But at the time of discovery, the text was impossible to read. Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with ...

It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court ... repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans to ...