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 and interpreted by two researchers from the Léon Robin Center (Sorbonne University/CNRS),
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 more of an oral and less of a learned form of written
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 of this behavior being described in ancient accounts of sea creatures recorded
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 meters long. The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary
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 by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus during the 2nd century BC. These texts,
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 lead – with the intention that these would then cause harm to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Secret, coded letters penned by Mary, Queen of Scots, while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, have been uncovered by a multidisciplinary team of international codebreakers. François Clouet – Mary,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have unraveled secrets from ancient Latin texts written on papyrus. This work could tell us a great deal about what Roman society and education were like and how the influence of Latin spread. While
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This magnificent artwork was discovered in a palace at Amarna, ancient Egypt’s capital, during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten (1347–1332 B.C). The ancient painting, hailed as a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art, is so finely
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A series of exciting inscriptions, almost invisible to the naked eye, have been discovered in the margins of an important eighth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30. Revealed through state-of-the-art 3D recording
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Advanced techniques to analyze the Dead Sea Scrolls and Eastern papyri are revealing vibrant secrets about daily life in the ancient world. Around 2,100 years ago, a Judaean scribe deftly swirled a stylus to dab
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dr. Matteo Cosci, has retrieved archival information which confirms that the treatise “Considerazioni Astronomiche di Alimberto Mauri “(1606) was in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A rare English illuminated medieval prayer roll, believed to be among only a few dozen still in existence worldwide, has been analyzed in a new study to expose Catholic beliefs in England before the Reformation
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is home to approximately 160,000 volumes of literary and historical manuscripts dating back to the eighth century, all of which are written by hand, on parchment, in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team under UZH’s lead has now traced families of related languages over more
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Mahabharata and Ramayana are two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. These literary masterworks contain a wealth of information and hold a special place in the hearts of Indians. “The fabric of Hindu culture is
