Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and dust. Ancient manuscripts are more than just remnants of antiquated ink on ...

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication. ...

Detail from a 14th-century miniature Greek manuscript depicting scenes from the life of Alexander the Great. Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek monk ...

ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT - (Reuters) - At St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is ...

Several years ago, Ryan Baumann, a digital humanities developer at Duke University, was leafing through an early 20th-century collection of ancient Greek manuscripts when he ran across an intriguing ...

PRINCETON, N.J. – In a story Dec. 19 about a lawsuit against Princeton University seeking the return of historic manuscripts, The Associated Press erroneously reported when the lawsuit claims soldiers ...

Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...

GERMANY (WKRC) - Scientists have discovered the oldest surviving copy of a written account of the childhood of Jesus in a forgotten and decaying manuscript. Papyrologists, scientists who study ...