Among the ruins of Herculaneum, archaeologists later discovered a library filled with hundreds of ancient scrolls. Like everything around them, these manuscripts had been carbonized by the volcano ...

Rebuilding the past often takes more than digging through ruins or reading faded scrolls. To truly understand ancient conflicts, scientists are turning to archaeomagnetism—a method that reads the ...

AN ANCIENT mosaic with the inscription "God Jesus Christ" is being dubbed the greatest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls. The massive discovery "confirms" Jesus' divinity about a hundred years ...

Archaeologists have discovered an "extremely rare and unusual" ancient stone amulet in Jerusalem that could change our understanding on the prevalence of reading and writing in antiquity.

The ancient bristlecone pine (pictured ... Mr Lewis compares this to reading a book. For the researchers who “read” its rings, the bristlecone pine is a tome older than the Bible.