Imagine a hidden Bible chapter discovered 1,500 years after it was written. What's even stranger was where it was found, ...
Some of the pages are missing, possibly because of a theft in the 11th century, but it is remarkably complete for a text that is so old. The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a ...
Spanning around 240 pages — though some seem to be missing — the Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex, written in a ...
A PAGE from a nearly 600-year-old Gutenberg Bible, regarded as the first mass-printed book using mechanized movable type in ...
The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...
Around 1700, the manuscript ended up in England, where it was pulled apart, its pages dispersed to various collections. Today, only 16 miniatures from the book are known to survive; fragments of ...
Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected ... on the fresh surface. The old text isn’t entirely gone, though. It remains embedded in the page as a ghostly shadow, which can be ...
But as you'll see as you peruse the 300-year-old manuscript at left ... With Bill Newman's help, we've "decoded" a page from one of these manuscripts. To orient yourself to the bewildering ...
On Feb. 2, 2025, Salama Marouf, head of Gaza's government media office, declared Gaza a “disaster zone” during a press ...