Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions Archive
Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A retired Classics professor from Texas has generously contributed a collection of papers to the University of Cincinnati. This donation includes valuable insights
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After months of examination, two University of Colorado Boulder scholars deciphered significant new fragments of works by Greek tragedian Euripides. In November 2022, Basem
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the Middle Ages, alchemists, including the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, were known for their secrecy regarding their work. Brahe's alchemical laboratory was
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of the papyrus fragment P.Hamb.Graec. 1011 at the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library is a significant milestone in
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two German scholars renowned for their contributions to folklore and linguistics. While they are best known
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Preserving ancient documents from biodegradation has been a challenging task, but scientists have discovered that the Wasabi plant can protect papyrus from fungi
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Examining historical books, manuscripts, and rare scrolls provides a distinctive insight into the lives and beliefs of our ancestors. Occasionally, these ancient documents can
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most have heard of the great English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), but his sister Joan is much less known, but this
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe, adorned with Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions, is truly extraordinary. The Verona astrolabe. Citation: Nuncius 39, 1 (2024)
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A remarkable discovery was made using a metal detector during an archaeological expedition in Vilnius castle in Lithuania. The archaeologists unearthed a rectangular
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A few years ago, archaeologists excavating an Iron Age site known as Irulegi in northern Spain discovered a flat bronze artifact shaped like
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The creation of the decimal point was a game-changer. It paved the way for the decimal system, revolutionizing calculations across various fields. This
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Easter Island's enigmatic Rongorongo script remains undeciphered, but a new study offers evidence that it represents an independent writing system. Moai on Easter
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A group of academic researchers from the University of Würzburg dedicated five years to examining "magical" texts from ancient Egypt. Their efforts have culminated
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When analyzing 2,500-year-old medical texts, scientists were surprised to discover dementia was hardly mentioned at all. Everything indicates memory loss was more or
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a
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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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Featured Stories
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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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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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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