It is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Armenian folklore, functioning as an encyclopaedia and repository of the entire range of knowledge about the heritage of Armenian people, their religion, mythology, philosophy, cosmology, customs and ethics.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

One of the three major epics of China , it is both an outstanding artistic creation and an oral encyclopaedia of the Kirgiz people.

UNESCO: Culture

This, to digital immigrants, may sound like a recipe for anarchic chaos, until they visit, for instance, wikipedia.org, an online encyclopaedia that is growing dramatically richer by the day through exactly this spontaneous (and surprisingly orderly) collaboration among strangers.

ECONOMIST: The future of journalism: Yesterday's papers | The

The core of the app is the London Encyclopaedia, an 1, 100-page doorstop first published by Macmillan in 1983, with 5, 500 detailed entries on buildings, places, events and people.

ECONOMIST: A multimedia compendium of 2,000 years