The world’s oldest complete Hebrew Bible, the Codex Sassoon, recently unveiled at the Anu–Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, carries a direct connection to India through its namesake, David ...

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...

GO: Shaping the Soul: Books in Medieval Life at Lewis & Clark College’s Watzek Library, 615 S Palatine Hill Road, ...

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

Every day, Christians around the world pick up their Bibles and read a translation. Bible Gateway alone has more than 60 ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints updated its General Handbook in December, inviting members to use multiple Bible translations instead of relying exclusively on the King James version.

But what has a jar in a desert cave to do with machine learning? A Bedouin shepherd who sought one of the limestone hills close to the Dead Sea in 1947 tossed a stone into a cave and heard it hit ...

Anke Gowda, a 75-year-old former bus conductor, has been honored with a Padma Award for establishing Pustaka Mane, a library ...

“After all, human handwriting and all of its variations and idiosyncratic features is a deeply human thing,” paleographer ...

Some of the most impressive artifacts of the West’s intellectual history are best appreciated in the intimate academic environs that fostered them.

One of Europe’s oldest university sights is the Book of Kells, tucked away in the library of the venerable Trinity College in ...