Just a 20-minute drive from Clay Kaserne in Germany, in the heart of Mainz’s old town sits the Gutenberg Museum, dedicated to Johannes Gutenberg and the movable type printing press that he invented ...

There is a popular saying in Cheongju, South Korea, that “anyone who does not know Jikji is a foreign spy.” The word appears on every street sign, and has been appended to the names of cafes, ...

In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press with movable type ushered in a new era of mass communication, democratizing access to information and revolutionizing the spread of ideas.

Two sets of sacred documents — the Gutenburg Bible and the Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius — chronicle two religious traditions separated by cultures and entire continents. We might not know of ...

FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are pictured in New York in April 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press, which led to “The Printing Revolution.” Johannes Gensfleisch zur ...

When people think about the printing revolution, one name comes to mind: Johannes Gutenberg. But what if Gutenberg didn't actually invent the revolutionary technique of mass-producing words as we know ...

Books came about when ancient Chinese artists laid sheets of paper over graphite-covered stone that was carved with Confucian texts. Confucius was a Chinese philosopher who encouraged strong family ...

A University of Utah researcher is leading a team to study the 14th century Korean book called Jikji.

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