Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

In July 2024, Diamond's powerful light enabled a team from the nearby Bodleian Libraries to scan a 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll. The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on ...

Before printing presses, before paper itself, humans found ways to preserve their thoughts, beliefs, and stories on everything from clay tablets to papyrus scrolls and carefully prepared animal skins.

People write down lots of things—from epic poems and sacred texts to tax decrees and shopping lists. But these things are of little use to anyone if they can’t be read. In the past few decades, ...

In our contemporary age, many individuals are consumed by their image and how others see them. This was also true with the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese, who were highly concerned with image ...