An enigmatic samurai text known as the "Sword Scroll" has been translated into English for the first time, revealing instructions for successful nighttime battles and recipes for blinding powders ...

Scientists are set to unlock the secrets hidden in a 600-year-old manuscript, which depicts a series of ancient wars that inspired George RR Martin’s "Games of Thrones." ...

A study of a scroll made more than 2,300 years ago has revealed how there were likely far more venomous snakes in ancient Egypt than are living in the country today.

It's a process he's successfully used in the past to read other ancient texts. In 2015, he was able to read a 2000-year-old carbonized scroll found near Ein Gedi in Israel. We were the first to ...

An infrared image of the ancient papyrus documenting a Roman court case. Israel Antiquities Authority. But in 2014, it was rediscovered by researcher Hannah Cotton Paltiel with the Hebrew ...

Scrolling through ancient texts. ... Korean, and English. While travelling from India along the Silk Route, the text was transcribed many times and now exists in different versions. ...

The scroll fragments were given by the Jordanian government to a leather expert at another English university for study in the 1950s, before being donated to The University of Manchester in 1997.

Reconstructing ancient texts. ... limited number of modern translations into both Korean and English. ... technique to read complete text from inside a charred, unopenable scroll from En-Gedi ...

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient texts from the Hebrew Bible found in the caves of Qumran? ... and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University.

Decades after the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in desert caves, the ancient manuscripts are still offering surprises. Chemical analysis of the Temple Scroll, the longest of the scrolls, has ...