For nearly 80 years, scholars have debated the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, relying on expert interpretations of ancient ...

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding ...

Early Bronze Age seals from Therasia, Greece may rewrite Aegean history, pointing to the Cyclades as the birthplace of ancient writing.

A correspondence about an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal ...

Because the ink contains no metal, unlike many ancient writing materials ... Top to bottom: a reference photograph, a texture image, a network-generated prediction image, and a network-generated ...

And then there's the speckled texture. The distinctive spotted look ... conservator Seham Abdelazeim needs to carefully protect this ancient writing with a water-soluble cellulose binder.

“I worked really carefully because when you find writing, that’s always an exciting thing in the ancient world,” said Sullivan. “I knew it was important. I certainly did not have any idea ...

They are written in Hanja, an ancient writing system based on Chinese characters ... If there was a subtle difference in the surface texture of bare papyrus fibres compared with ink-coated ones ...

Their finds — ranging from storage pits to a rare writing tool — revealed a glimpse of ancient life. The ancient Celtic settlement near Altenburg stretches across the looping Rhine River and ...

Just outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest example of alphabetic writing ever found ... betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around ...

The ancient writing was found on several clay cylinders, each the length of a finger, in Syria. A perfectly preserved tomb was located by researchers containing unbroken pottery, six skeletons ...