Study comes as 'Great Isaiah,' a 24-foot-long text parchment found with the Dead Sea Scrolls, set to be displayed by the ...

21-year-old Luke Farritor identified the first word in a scroll that was buried in mud and ash during the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Herculaneum scroll that Luke Farritor helped decipher ...

An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts has discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the University of Bologna ...

A researcher has finally cracked the code of two ancient Dead Sea Scroll fragments that baffled scholars for more than 70 ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought, according to a new study. The fresh analysis, which paired radiocarbon ...

Writing and literature are thought to have been first developed between the 7th and 4th millenium BC. Although, since the very existence of writing, a good number of methods have been employed in ...

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