Many of the Novgorod manuscripts are colloquial letters and stories carved into either birch bark scrolls or wax tablets known as tseras. Most of them date from the 11th to the 15th centuries.

Wooden boardwalks built in the 1120s were excavated in the early 1950s, when the first birch bark manuscripts were found. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Most of the birchbark manuscripts are fairly ...

most of his manuscripts contained figural doodles, and their delightfully simple style has made him the most famous person in the Novgorod birch-bark texts — as well as the creator of some of ...

TASS/. Valentin Yanin, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a world-acclaimed archaeologists and expert in Novgorod birch bark manuscripts, has died at the age of 90, his widow Elena ...

They used birch bark, a readily available material used ... It wasn't until 1951 that the first birchbark manuscript was rediscovered. Novgorod was founded sometime around the 9th century, and ...