A history of agriculture is locked away in centuries worth of documents from the British Isles -- if you know how to find it. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

A super-X-ray beam at Stanford University is literally shedding new light on the achievements of an ancient titan of math and engineering who lived almost 23 centuries ago. Just as today's scientists ...

A super-X-ray beam in Menlo Park is literally shedding new light on the achievements of an ancient titan of math and engineering who lived almost 23 centuries ago. Just as today's scientists learn the ...

New research undertaken by researchers from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the University of York shows extracted ancient DNA from parchments can determine the development of centuries-old ...

A historian studying a text in the Vatican has discovered a hidden fragment of the Gospel of Matthew, written in Old Syriac, that differs from what is seen today in the Bible. The alternate version of ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --Scientists were able to deconstruct an ancient Jewish parchment using a combination of sophisticated imaging techniques. The research -- published Friday in the journal Frontiers in ...

It might at first glance appear to be a lump of charcoal, but a piece of ancient scroll burned beyond all recognition can now be read for the first time since it was discovered. Scientists have used ...

‘Around 1205, a young soldier of about 15 named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man. He repented for this by living in a cave in the Subiaco region of Rome for 34 years.’ (From a parchment ...

The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials ...

Researchers have determined the unique composition of a surface layer on the Temple Scroll, one of the best-preserved of the more than 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, to uncover the ancient ...