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

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 ...

A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost ...

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 ...

Their yearslong research not only established the manuscript as the oldest-known Hebrew book but also unearthed evidence that Jews had lived in Afghanistan — and along the ancient Silk Roads ...

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

Christianity's oldest religious book ... senior specialist for books and manuscripts at Christies. "The earliest monks in Upper Egypt in the earliest Christian monastery were using this very ...