In many ways, the game plays like a thoughtful cosmetic update. You select a civilization and a leader, with options that aren’t only the obvious ones (all hail Empress Harriet Tubman!). The world map ...

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away ... From the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jews at Qumran apparently read and copied Tobit, The Letter of Jeremiah ...

Yeboah The decision by the University of Ghana to extend graduation medals to all classes; First Class, Second Class Upper, Second Class Lower, and Third Class has sparked intense debate among ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're reading it.

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets. UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to ...

The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on the I12 beamline and the collected X-ray data has played a crucial role in deciphering the text of this ancient artifact. By scanning ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...