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., ...

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’ ...

Harvard Medieval Art History Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger embarked on a crusade last week to save a rare professorship at King’s College London from being eliminated due to budget cuts. Hamburger ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—In a pitch-black room in Waldo Library’s basement digitization studio, two researchers huddled over damaged manuscripts, scrolls and parchment fragments, preparing to uncover text ...

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 ...

Reading old handwriting is an ongoing challenge for family researchers. It turns out that nothing can replace actual experience when it comes to interpreting old documents. The more we work with ...