Not far from Rabbi Menachem Siderson’s grasp is a highly-protected metal case that includes essential items of his trade: ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...

Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden said: 'Finding the full title of a work inside a scroll that has been unread for two millennia is an astonishing achievement. '[It] illustrates the huge ...

The scroll — named PHerc. 172 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which was buried under volcanic debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, according to the ...