Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

From the Voynich manuscript to the Book of Soyga, these ancient texts have baffled historians for centuries. Discover the mysterious origins, strange content, and untold stories behind these ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

Newton was fascinated by Starkey's encoded laboratory processes, extracting and interpreting them many times throughout his manuscripts. Like Starkey, Newton believed that ancient Greek and Roman ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician known as Galen.