His idea was simple: by bombarding the manuscript with X-ray photons fired at close to the ... “I wished I could read ancient ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China.

A legal ruling by Egypt’s Ismailia Administrative Appeal Court on 28 May ignited tensions between the state and the Greek ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

Early owners The Voynich Manuscript ’s earliest known probable owner is Carl Widemann, a physician and alchemist based in Augsburg, Germany, who was also a collector and book dealer. He appears ...

Art History Women Played a Pivotal Role as Scribes of Medieval Manuscripts, Research Reveals More than 110,000 manuscripts were made by women, a far greater number than previously thought.

Lost manuscripts written by the famous Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga were discovered in the Netherlands. The ancient finds are located at Leiden University Libraries.

Analysis of Ancient Manuscript Yields the Long-Hidden Identity of a Byzantine Painter Panselinos was one of the great Byzantine artists. His true identity had long been lost—until now.

A recently discovered 1,600-year-old papyrus is the earliest known manuscript of the Infancy Gospel. The apocryphal stories about Jesus' childhood fascinate the world, but they aren't new.

The piece of papyrus contains a total of 13 lines in Greek letters and originates from late antique Egypt, which was a Christian society at that time. The manuscript describes the beginning of the ...