The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

The historical text found inside the mummy was The Iliad, one of the most important works in Western literature.

(RNS) — The discovery offers insight into how early Christians read and understood Scripture — and provides a point of ...

A 1,500-year-old book that contains a previously unknown gospel has been deciphered. The ancient manuscript may have been used to provide guidance or encouragement to people seeking help for their ...

Researchers have recovered 42 pages of the 6th-century Codex H, an important New Testament manuscript, from reused bindings in books across Europe and beyond. Using multispectral imaging, the team ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China. Researchers uncovered a Chinese text on silk that could very well be the world’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek text which was recently discovered in northern Israel, ...

(The Conversation) — Swasthani holds a central place in Nepali culture. Its female characters uphold ideals of faithful wifehood – seen by some as patriarchal and by others as a source of strength.

(THE CONVERSATION) I first heard the popular “Swasthani Vrata Katha” – a devotional text – recited in Sankhu, a village on the outskirts of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, some 25 years ago. The text tells ...