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According to the New York Times, the Museum of the Bible’s website lists the manuscript’s history and provenance, or chain of ownership, from its creation in the late 10th or early 11th ...
An embellished hand-lettered Greek-language manuscript of the Gospels will return to a Greek Orthodox monastery Thursday, 105 years after foreign forces stole it during World War I, the Museum of ...
Ultraviolet fluorescence image of the ancient manuscript, revealing Ptolemy's Greek text as lighter brown traces between the dark brown Latin text of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies.
Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is actually a thin sheet of lead about the size of a playing card. On it are inscribed 10 ...
Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden University in the ...
Researchers have deciphered an ancient manuscript that they think Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer of Greek descent, penned during the first century A.D. Written in Greek ...
The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Email address Sign up Thank you!