The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication. ...

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The history of a great crossroads for ideas and industry is recorded in the ancient manuscripts of Mali, says Christopher Reardon, a freelance writer. As many as a million of the manuscripts survive, ...

MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls.

An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up for auction at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of ...

Historical documents considered lost to the ravages of time—like crumbling parchment thousands of years old or medieval manuscripts whose ink long ago faded away—are being given a new life thanks to a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A scholar from the Netherlands used AI to determine that the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously believed. The new AI model pairs ...

ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT - (Reuters) - At St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is ...

The ancient manuscript you see in the image below is called the Vonyich manuscript and it was written in the 15th century. It has troubled historians and cryptographers since it was discovered in the ...

One week after Islamic militants fled Timbuktu under French bombing strikes, preservationists are deeply uncertain about how to continue protecting the city’s priceless ancient documents — a conundrum ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and dust. Ancient manuscripts are more than just remnants of antiquated ink on ...

PRINCETON, N.J. – In a story Dec. 19 about a lawsuit against Princeton University seeking the return of historic manuscripts, The Associated Press erroneously reported when the lawsuit claims soldiers ...