Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy survived only because generations of copyists reproduced them by hand. Subscribe ...

A long-lost Biblical passage, buried for nearly 1,500 years, has surfaced through the lens of ultraviolet technology. The rediscovery bridges ancient scripture and modern science in a stunning reveal.

Last year, Cambridge University released digital versions of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts and notebooks. The university also launched a new website which showed a digital version of a 2,000 year-old ...