Report long enough on palaeological and archaeological breakthroughs, and you start to notice some trends. Such as, the amazing frequency with which priceless relics are found collecting dust in a ...

As such, the palimpsest hosts a number of 10th century treatises by the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse (though the original texts would have been centuries older). Notably, ...

Researchers have discovered a long-lost page from a treatise by Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes in the archives of a ...

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the ...

A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging technology.

Researchers in France have discovered a missing page from the legendary Archimedes palimpsest, a centuries-old manuscript ...

One of the world’s most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years. The British Library said Monday that it was ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

ATHENS, Greece — A U.S. museum has returned a valuable 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript to a monastery in northern Greece it was looted from by Bulgarian forces more than a century ago together ...