(RNS) — The discovery offers insight into how early Christians read and understood Scripture — and provides a point of ...

Researchers recover 42 lost pages from a 6th-century Greek codex, giving insights into the Letters of St. Paul and early ...

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...

AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature. A team of computer scientists and experts in ...

During the excavations of the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists found a mummy inside which a papyrus was ...