In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to ...

Ancient medical texts found in Iraq reveal how Mesopotamian healers sometimes sent patients to sanctuaries as part of treatment.

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Over 1,000 words, or about 30% of the text, has been deciphered, university officials said. Photo from the University of Pisa For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum ...

In July 2024, Diamond's powerful light enabled a team from the nearby Bodleian Libraries to scan a 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll. The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on ...

The model, called Aeneas, is designed to contextualize Latin inscriptions by tracking down similarities across thousands of ancient texts. Google DeepMind says researchers can adapt Aeneas to other ...