What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at ...

While we know the manuscript spent at least 650 years at Kells, we do not know where it started its life. Now a new book ...

At first glance it may have looked like something risen from the mists of time - a simple wooden boat, its dull red sail billowing in the stiff ...