Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...

A medieval scholar has discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels using UV light. Grigory Kessel from the Austrian Academy of Sciences found the translation, which is written in Old ...

About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often ...

The ancient Bible, in an Aramaic dialect, will be shown in the Ankara Museum of Ethnography. Turkish police testified in a court hearing in Ankara last week that they believe the manuscript of a bible ...

Let there be UV light. A “hidden chapter” of biblical text that is said to date back 1,750 years has been interpreted by an Austrian scientist, according to a study published last month in the journal ...

15:55, Tue, Jan 7, 2025 Updated: 16:06, Tue, Jan 7, 2025 An almost 1,500-year-old section of the Biblical text has been discovered during a recent study, scientists have revealed. The researchers used ...

14:50, Thu, May 25, 2023 Updated: 15:13, Thu, May 25, 2023 Researchers have discovered a 1,500-year-old hidden Bible passage by scanning a manuscript with an ultraviolet light. Historian Grigory ...

The Ancient Egyptian obelisk at the Vatican is out of place, but not nearly as out of place as a lost Bible chapter that nobody knew about hiding somewhere you'd never expect: the Holy See's vault.

Scientists have found a “hidden chapter” of Biblical text nearly 1,500 years after it was first written. The lost section represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, according to the ...

An almost 1,500-year-old section of the Biblical text has been discovered during a recent study, scientists have revealed. The researchers used ultraviolet photography to find the chapter, which was ...