Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

This peculiar coincidence sent the internet into overdrive, with netizens offering everything from humour to speculation.

A Quran manuscript held at the University of Birmingham represents one of the oldest pieces of textual evidence of the Islamic holy book, according to radiocarbon analyses done by scientists.

Archaeologists Discover an Old Legible Manuscript in a Tomb, Contained Writings to Understand Greek Religion An ancient Greek ...

One of the most remarkable achievements of the medieval world is an illuminated manuscript known as the Book of Kells. Created by Celtic monks in a remote monastery between the 6th and 8th centuries, ...

Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

Researchers at Keio University and other institutions say the writing is also most likely the oldest among manuscripts of commentaries on the Confucian Analects that have been handed down at ...

The researchers used ultraviolet photography to find the chapter, which was hidden under an incredible three layers of text in an old manuscript kept at the Vatican. The study, published in the ...

Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography — the study of historical writing systems — when he ...

In October 1998, a battered manuscript of parchment leaves sold for $2 million to an anonymous bidder at auction. The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by ...

But as you'll see as you peruse the 300-year-old manuscript at left, this puzzle is no child's play—more like an enigma wrapped in a mystery riddled with a number of misleading clues.