Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones weighing hundreds of pounds each. Early returns from excavations have already ...

Originally discovered at some point during the 1950s or early '60s, the scroll was initially believed to have been penned by ...

Register here for this hybrid talk. This remarkable story started with the excavation by the Egyptian archaeologist Basem Gehad of a grave in the ancient Egyptian city Philadelphia resulting in the ...

an ancient Arabic dialect, but as Cotton Paltiel studied it, she realized that it was actually written in Greek — and the race began to decipher what the 1,900-year-old papyrus said. After ...

“The papyrus reflects the suspicion with which ... realized that it was written in ancient Greek. In light of the document’s complexity and extraordinary length, a team of scholars was ...