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 ...

Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek monk named Nikodemos was putting together a massive anthology of Byzantine texts on prayer and spirituality, which he would call The Philokalia. He lamented ...

Hidden universe found: Scientists discovered traces of a 2,000-year-old star map beneath medieval script in Codex Climaci Rescriptus. Tech unlocks secrets: X-ray scans reveal Greek text with star data ...

An international research team has recovered 42 lost pages from Codex H, a sixth-century Greek New Testament manuscript of St. Paul’s letters, using multispectral imaging and carbon dating. The new ...

The Washington, D.C.-based Museum of the Bible handed over an ancient, handwritten gospel to the Greek Orthodox Church yesterday, the latest move in its ongoing effort to shore up its reputation after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Specks of eraser dust contain enough DNA to identify the animal products used to in books. In May 2006, Tim Stinson travelled to ...

On 10 June 2026, the NEAstr project team held its second workshop, on the theme of 'Late antique astronomical sciences in ...