A medieval scholar has discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels using UV light. Grigory Kessel from the Austrian Academy of Sciences found the translation, which is written in Old ...

Scientists have found a lost Bible chapter 1500 years after it was first written. It was made possible using UV light.

Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...

Scientists have found a long-lost “hidden chapter” of Biblical text nearly 1,500 years after it was first written. The lost section represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, ...

A scientist found a lost portion of Biblical text about 1,500 years after it was initially written. All he needed was ultraviolet photography equipment and plenty of research know-how. Announcing the ...

About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often ...

The Ancient Egyptian obelisk at the Vatican is out of place, but not nearly as out of place as a lost Bible chapter that nobody knew about hiding somewhere you'd never expect: the Holy See's vault.

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US archivists have found what they believe to be the first map of the stars ever created, hidden in a Christian manuscript uncovered in a monastery in Egypt. The manuscript, a Syriac text of John ...