In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

Michel de Nostredame — a French astrologist and soothsayer from the 16th century known as Nostradamus — is also said to have ...

Now, an Israeli researcher has harnessed computational technology to showcase how the scribes compiling the documents made active editorial choices, shaping the knowledge for future generations and ...

An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial ...

An expert who specialises in the area of ancient manuscripts has claimed an ancient Egyptian scroll provides evidence which ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Duke Divinity researchers Brent Strawn and Drew Longacre will then produce a scholarly archetype of the Book of Psalms, by ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge ... including analysis of ancient DNA and collagen, to examine intriguingly hairy outer bindings of twelfth- and thirteenth-century books from ...