Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A scholar from the Netherlands used AI to determine that the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously believed. The new AI model pairs ...

Stories of giants appear in ancient texts across cultures, from biblical accounts to Greek mythology. Long dismissed as ...

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, ...

Researchers used AI to analyze the first nine books of the Hebrew Bible, discovering three distinct writing styles that ...

The origin of Elephantine Island’s name remains murky. Some spy the mammal in its hulking granite rocks, or conjure the specter of some long-extinct herd. Others point to the lucrative ivory trade it ...

Historians don’t know when the Ancient Roman text “Res Gestae Divi Augusti,” a chronicle of Emperor Augustus’s deeds, was first written, since these kind of epigraphs tend to not contain any written ...

In 2013, two local Iraqis handed over two inscribed clay cylinders to the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Subsequent ...

Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...

How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been pottery sherds, burial sites, and ancient texts. But the study of ancient DNA is changing what we know ...