Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

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

Island are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsolved mysteries The world’s most mysterious secrets Ancient ...

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester have secured a major €2.5 million (£2.1 million) grant from the European Research Council to uncover lost medical writings that could transform ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are even older than we thought, according to a new AI analysis by scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. ( AP/Bram Janssen) For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities ...

“Often, these manuscripts have allowed us to rediscover ancient Greek texts that only survived in their Syriac translation.” For Maeir, it was essential to treat the manuscripts as independent ...

In the world of ancient manuscripts, scholars often come across texts that have been altered or erased. This technique, ...

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.

Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is actually a thin sheet of lead about the size of a playing card. On it are inscribed 10 ...