Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Crosby-Schoyen Codex at Christie's auction house in Paris. The manuscript goes up for auction in London on June 11, 2024.

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 ...

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 ...

The earliest manuscript of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was found in a German university library after sitting for decades. Greg Rosenke via Unsplash At the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and ...

The papyrus, known as Anastasi I, or “The Satirical Letter,” is believed by most to take the form of a somewhat mocking ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are influenced by multiple pathways of textual flow. This makes it difficult to reconstruct a ...

Last month, some remarkable news surfaced: the fabled Voynich manuscript had finally been decoded by artificial intelligence. But it turns out that the content of the cryptic 600-year-old, 240-page ...

Ancient rolls of manuscript that were carbonized during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD have been virtually unfolded by scientists in Italy. Having probed the “Herculaneum papyri” with X-rays, ...

The origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the lives of the people who wrote them have mystified scholars for decades. Now, researchers using artificial intelligence (A.I.) have come one step closer to ...