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.

T wo lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic ...

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

Experts have deciphered an ancient manuscript, finding that it represents the earliest surviving copy of a gospel about Jesus' childhood. The fragment of papyrus, a paper-like material used during ...

Detail from a 14th-century miniature Greek manuscript depicting scenes from the life of Alexander the Great. Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek ...

The Greek Orthodox Church sued Princeton University four years ago to try to recover four manuscripts many scholars believe were looted from the same monastery. The case has not been resolved.

Greek monastery manuscripts tell new story of Ottoman rule Deep inside the medieval fortified monastery ... fell to the Ottomans in 1453 — until the early 20th when the area became Greek again. ...

Oldest manuscript of Jesus’ youth decoded for first time in Germany. ... The codex, previously thought to be the oldest in ancient Greek, was dated to the 11th century, ...

The oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is known as the Septuagint, and was made between 300 and 130 B.C. It derives its name from the seventy or seventy two translators to whom ...

Nov. 23—A scrap of paper bearing Greek script led counselor Win Belcher on a decades-long search to piece together an early Christian puzzle. Belcher, a therapist at Oklahoma Families First ...

Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery in Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts. IE 11 is not supported.