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Europe's most ancient manuscript is more legible now than at any time since it was burned and buried more than 2,300 years ago, thanks to the work of two Brigham Young University researchers. In April, Roger T. Macfarlane and Gene A. Ware visited Greece for two weeks of intense efforts to recover hidd...
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The Gospel of Judas (Iscariot, not Thomas)- said to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of modern times - is about to be published amid explosive controversy, Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper revealed yesterday.
The 62-page papyrus manuscript of the text was uncovered in Eg...
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The Psalter
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The exact location of the discovery of what has been dubbed ‘Ireland’s Dead Sea Scrolls’ has been revealed by the National Museum of Ireland.
The Psalter, or Book of Psalms was pulled out of a bog in the townland of Faddan More in north Tipperary, where it was first hidden around 1,000 year...
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The Royal Society has a story on a Lost Newton manuscript rediscovered.
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The notes are written about alchemy, which some scientists in Newton's time believed to hold the secret for transforming base metals, such as lead, into the more prec...
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Plans by a Geneva museum to sell two ancient manuscripts for millions of dollars have drawn consternation from scholars around the world.
They fear the sale of the papyri, which date back to the 2nd century, could precipitate the break-up of a unique collection of around 50 texts held by the Bodmer...
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‘Oldest’ papyrus is decoded
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Greek and foreign experts have used cutting-edge technology to decode the Greek text of the world’s oldest literary papyrus more than four decades after its discovery, it was revealed yesterday.
The Derveni Papyrus — which has been in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki since...
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A curious case of Americans versus Iran has the Tehran government asking for Washington to intervene and the University of Chicago defending the Islamic regime in court.
At issue is an extremely valuable collection of ancient Persian cuneiform tablets that victims of a terror bombing want to...
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Some scholars, such as Dr. Delbert Hillers (John Hopkins University) of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the editors of the Oxford & Harper Collins translations, contend that the number 666 is a code for emperor [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
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Ancient Lives Project
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Ancient Lives is a collaboration between a diverse collection of Oxford Papyrologists and Researchers, The Imaging Papyri Project, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, and the Egypt Exploration Society and the following institutions. The papyri belong to the Egypt Exploration Society and will ev...
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How the world's first accountants counted on cuneiform The Egyptians used to believe that literacy was divine, a gift from baboon-faced Thoth, the god of knowledge. Scholars no longer embrace that theory, but why ancient civilisations developed writing was a mystery for a long time. Was it for rel...
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