In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum. Inside was a ...

The Library of Congress made public a rare 2,000-year-old text of early Buddhism on Monday, and it offers a glimpse into early Buddhist history during its formative years. The scroll originated in ...

Known as PHerc. 172, this particular scroll is housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, and is covered in ancient Greek text written in carbon-based ink. 'It's an incredible moment in history ...

A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of new words hidden within an ancient scroll carbonized during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius—and the new text points to the long-lost ...

Researchers have been intrigued, in particular, by one document called the Temple Scroll, a 25-foot-long parchment that still maintains a bright white surface ... The text is written on the ...

measuring 24 feet long and around 10 inches in height, containing the entire text of the Book of Isaiah. That makes the Isaiah Scroll the oldest complete copy of the book by about 1,000 years.

Researchers were able to read the ancient scroll using three ... Scholars say the text in Ein Gedi - in standard Hebrew - offer the first physical evidence of a long-held belief that the version ...

AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time The achievement has ignited the usually slow-moving world of ancient studies. It’s “what I always thought was a pipe dream ...

SAPPORO--A long-lost hanging scroll by Taikan Yokoyama that was found in a private home will go on public display at the Hokkaido Prefectural Art Museum here from April. Yokoyama (1868-1958), a ...