Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions Archive
Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new artificial intelligence (AI) software is now able to decipher difficult-to-read texts on cuneiform tablets. It was developed by a team from Martin
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fiend, which has lurked unseen in a painting by Joshua Reynolds, has emerged following conservation work by the National Trust. The devil-like
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fiancées, wives, parents and siblings -- but never delivered -- have been opened and studied
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After almost 2,000 years, the first full word from the Herculaneum scroll has been deciphered by a 21-year-old computer science student at the
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When you look at the painting, you may not notice it immediately, but once you examine the artwork closer, you can see something
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is an eternal masterpiece that has now given up a secret. Using X-rays and infrared spectroscopy to
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rats in the kitchen. Typically that implies issues with cleanliness and safety. But in medieval Japan, having rats in the kitchen could suggest
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are often popping up about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Koine Greek inscription paraphrasing Psalms 86 was discovered by archaeologists at the site of Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. Adorned with
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A never-before seen manuscript by Scottish-based artisan Esther Inglis, dating back to the early 1600s, was unveiled at The University of St Andrews
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Five treasure finds, including three hoards and two grave groups of Bronze Age and Roman date, were declared treasure on Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Kushan Empire in Central Asia was one of the most influential states of the ancient world. A research team at the University
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian Book of the Dead provides unique insights into the religious life of ancient Egypt. A new handbook presents the current state
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Worn as a note in an amulet around the neck, deposited in a grave, or found as a manual in a scholar's library:
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - All across the world, there are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes, and maps that, until this day, remain undeciphered. Multiple attempts
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncienyPages.com - Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted.
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AncientPages.com - The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts—mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Petroglyphs and drawings in Gobustan are among the most ancient rock galleries in the world. They show many aspects of everyday life, customs, and
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There are places where you can literally "feel" you're moving back in time. One such place is Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Built
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Codex Atlanticus is one of the most extensive and fascinating collections of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and writings. Its preservation is a
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales have used an advanced imaging technique at the Australian Synchrotron to gain
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 1,300 years ago, a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly recorded some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions. An international team of researchers, led by the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a new study published in Hebrew University’s Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, Dr. Daniel Vainstub deciphered a partially preserved inscription that was found on
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Rök Stone (in Swedish, Rökstenen') is the 9th-century memorial granite block covered with the longest runic inscription ever discovered. The 4-ton stone is located
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales worldwide. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Inscribed with passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the ancient Egyptian scroll known as the Waziri Papyrus I is over 16
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Curse tablets were popular and widely used in the ancient world. The corresponding incantations were often inscribed or carved on thin sheets of
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