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A late 12th century illuminated gospels manuscript in Greek, which has been digitized, is seen at the British Library in London, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
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.
Undertext — a 5th or 6th century copy of a second heretofore unknown classical Greek medical text, a glossary of ancient Greek medical terminology. Courtesy of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the ...
A study of the 4,500 manuscripts—an assemblage of early Christian texts that dwarfs ... The oldest known copy of the gospels in Arabic was a palimpsest that once carried an ancient Greek medical ...
Other manuscripts cover science, medicine and the Greek classics. The digitization of the first stage alone, the Syriac-Arabic manuscripts, will take around three years and cost a projected $2.75 ...
The ancient Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John, which reportedly dates back between A.D. 250 and A.D. 350, was spotted for sale on eBay in January for $99.
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 ...
T wo lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic ...
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.