Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the ...

One of three missing pages from Archimedes' palimpsest, a 10th century manuscript containing several copies of the Greek scientist's ancient texts, has been found by a researcher in the archives of ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

It all started off as a joke, a French researcher told AFP. But what the team found was a piece of history—a long-lost page from a legendary manuscript by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes which ...

For over a century, a priceless piece of mathematical history has been hiding in plain sight. Deep within the archives of a ...

These remarkable women broke every rule of their time, risking their lives disguising themselves as men to fight in some of ...

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Inside the dusty shell of one of the oldest libraries in the Palestinian territories, a group of Gazan volunteers work diligently to salvage what remains of ...

A region famous for its sun-drenched climate becomes a refreshing retreat when the summer heat, megayachts and swarms of tourists are gone.

A remarkable discovery in Izernore, France, has unearthed ancient wooden writing tablets. These nearly two-thousand-year-old relics provide a unique window into Roman provincial life. The waterlogged ...

The Olympic flame encased in a Venetian glass vessel was carried into the Arena by Italian gold medalists from the 1994 ...

A statue of the Nubian god Apademak stands alone in the courtyard of Sudan’s National Museum, one of the few survivors of systematic looting amid a conflict that has developed into one of the world’s ...