When conducting historical research in the field of Japanese history, it is common practice to use ancient documents which remain throughout the country. Conversely, the medieval Islamic world has not ...

The finding of such a large number of document seals is a window into daily life in the Roman city of Doliche in modern-day Turkey. Archaeologists Michael Blömer and Engelbert Winter from the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Scott DiGiulio, an assistant professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, is re-examining in his collaborative book how ancient ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has helped researchers determine the age of the Dead Sea Scrolls, revealing that some of these manuscripts are considerably older than previously thought. Most ...

Thanks to an innovation in imaging technology, inscribed stones and ancient wood- and lead-tablet documents in the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the British Museum are being rescued from ...

New analysis of ancient writings suggests that sailors from the Italian hometown of Christopher Columbus knew of America 150 years before its renowned 'discovery'. Transcribing and detailing a, circa, ...

Two sets of sacred documents — the Gutenburg Bible and the Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius — chronicle two religious traditions separated by cultures and entire continents. We might not know of ...

Egypt's pyramids hide some strange facts and mysteries, and the biggest among them is who built the pyramids. While aliens and supernatural forces have been suggested by fringe theorists, ...