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, ...

Many researchers have spent decades attempting to decode biblical descriptions and link them to verifiable historical events. One such description is that of the Star of Bethlehem—a bright ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

The passages are flowery but fitting for an eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish." When you ...

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 ...