A super-X-ray beam in Menlo Park is literally shedding new light on the achievements of an ancient titan of math and engineering who lived almost 23 centuries ago. Just as today's scientists learn the ...

A history of agriculture is locked away in centuries worth of documents from the British Isles -- if you know how to find it. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Researchers have discovered what is thought to be the first known map of the night sky, written over 2,000 years ago. The map was discovered by scholars studying Christian texts written on an old ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --Scientists were able to deconstruct an ancient Jewish parchment using a combination of sophisticated imaging techniques. The research -- published Friday in the journal Frontiers in ...

The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials ...

A super-X-ray beam at Stanford University is literally shedding new light on the achievements of an ancient titan of math and engineering who lived almost 23 centuries ago. Just as today's scientists ...

If you’re a history buff, you might not know much particle physics. But the two fields share more in common than you’d think. X-rays from a high-energy lab have revealed ancient Greek medical texts ...

In 1947, shepherds discovered the now-famed Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean Desert’s 11 Qumran Caves. While their exact genesis is somewhat contested, these ancient Jewish manuscripts (many of which ...

A new study is demonstrating how ancient animal DNA, extracted from Dead Sea Scroll parchments, can help with piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of disparate fragments found in the Judean desert. It's ...