[CBCnews]
Scientists using American space technology have started a huge project to digitally photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls and post the images on the internet.

[EduChoices]
Online libraries—25 places to read free books online.

[DW-WORLD.DE]
Salman Rushdie: I am very disappointed to hear that my publishers, Random House, have cancelled another author's novel, apparently because of concerns about possible Islamic reprisals.

[The Los Angeles Times]
Mexican archaeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones.

[The Australian]
The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius's eruption in 79CE, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets.

[thehugoawards.org]
The results of the 2008 Hugo Awards, as announced at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, in Denver, Colorado, USA, on August 9th 2008.

[SimonSays.com]
A video series made for the web, based on a Stephen King short story. [video]

[Spiegel Online]
Timbuktu harbors thousands upon thousands of long-forgotten manuscripts. A dozen academic instutions from around the world are now working frantically to save and evaluate the crumbling documents.