The text also provides more detail about Plato’s final night – and he wasn’t a fan of the music that was played. It had previously been thought that the so-called “sweet notes” played by ...

Text Under Gold Leaf of Ancient Book Revealed After 1,000 Years Published Nov 20, 2024 at 1:42 PM EST Updated Dec 05, 2024 at 12:18 PM EST By Aristos Georgiou ...

The text includes Judeo-Christian themes but also themes related with Greek mythology. As Winkle puts it, the text is an account of a “biblical persona, treated in a very non-biblical sort of way.” ...

What looks like a log of charcoal is priceless ancient text that's now decipherable thanks to open-source AI. Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the ...

A remarkable hidden chapter of the Bible was uncovered, shedding new light on ancient scripture after remaining concealed for 1,500 years. The discovery was made by medievalist Grigory Kessel, who ...

Developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia, an ancient region centered in modern-day Iraq and the surrounding regions, more than 5,000 years ago, cuneiform is not a language in itself.

The text turned up in the Egyptian desert in 1970 bound as a book known as a codex. Terry Garcia's with the National Geographic Society which arranged for the translation.

Nader's model has since deciphered an additional four and a half columns of text separated by margins, although not all the visible letters are legible. DOI: Nature, 2023. 10.1038/d41586-023-03212 ...

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 ...