on a thin strip of parchment in the library archive of the baroque Melk Abbey on the banks of the Danube in Austria’s Wachau Valley. Measuring 22cm by 1.5cm, the fragment was discovered wrapped ...

The parking lot at Melk Abbey — a baroque-style abbey in a former castle and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — was completely empty when our bus pulled in. The wide-open inner courtyard was not ...