King’s College London has proposed cutting its paleography program (paleography is the deciphering and reading of historical manuscripts) and eliminating its Chair of Paleography, which is the only ...

The project and some preliminary results were presented at a conference at the university last week: while in many instances, some scrolls might be more ancient than previously thought. A new project ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the ...

The kitchen-sized Institut de Papyrologie at Paris’ ancient Sorbonne University is one of the oddities of modern science. In an era of high-budget research, the institute operates with a few dollars’ ...

A scholar penman / J.A. Cole -- Alfred Fairbank's opus / Ruari McLean -- The Book of remembrance, St. Clement Danes / Theodore McEvoy -- Three Latin inscriptions of 52 B.C. / A.E. Gordon & Joyce S.

*It's the art of reading old forms of hand-writing. A lot of those antique documents, even in English, are well-nigh inexplicable nowadays unless you know what you're doing with them. Top Design ...

Qiu Xigui, a doyen of Chinese paleography, ancient classics and history and a leading professor at the Center for Research on Chinese Excavated Classics and Paleography at Fudan University, died ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. The woman who ...