draws on a 4,000-year-old piece of literature known as The Instruction of Khety, or The Satire of the Trades. Hoffen’s journey into ancient texts began in middle school, where he developed a ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ancient text that lay sealed inside a charred scroll for nearly 2,000 years.

The old text isn’t entirely ... In the example above, a text in Syriac overlays a ninth-century translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician known as ...

The text is one of some 800 scrolls unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum ... but I believe it will soon be revealed. An old, new story that starts for us with ‘purple’ is an ...

Three students have won a $700,000 prize after using AI to read a 2,000-year-old scroll burnt during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD. The ancient text was unreadable until now after being ...

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student was at a party in August when he received a text ... ancient Roman scrolls that were damaged by a volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. The 21-year-old computer ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible ... made out of clay have the oldest known alphabetic text engraved on them. The finger-length cylinders ...

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In early 19th-century London, the arrival of temple artworks taken from the Acropolis of Athens inspired both poetic raptures ...

The project was based on an ancient bamboo text called the "Shi Fang" manuscript ... an ancient rice recipe from the 2,000-year-old manuscript. Researchers also selected a type of non-glutinous ...