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

This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around ...

It once happened that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azaryah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining in ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...