Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in ...

He wrote, “Archaeology has been pointing to the accuracy ... are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?” (2 Kings 20:20). “It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper ...

one preserved at the Archaeological Museum in Florence, and another that was lost but known thanks to a drawing copied by Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. Papyri of the Book of the Dead ...