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This curious object is the oldest man-made object in the library and comes from pre-dynastic Egypt, sometime between 3900 and 3650 BCE.

120 years after the first Cairo Genizah manuscripts were brought to Cambridge University Library, A Brush with History explores the painstaking process of conserving them– separating out individual fragments from caked-together bundles, flattening, carefully removing dirt, and consolidating ink. Produced with funding from the Wellcome Trust, through its Research Resources and Public Engagement

Alexander the Great is one of history’s most famous figures; he is also one of the most enigmatic. Aged just twenty when he inherited the throne of Macedonia in 336 BC, he led an invasion of the Persian Empire, then the most powerful empire in the world. Within ten years, Alexander had conquered vast swathes of territory, stretching from modern Egypt and Turkey in the West, to Afghanistan and