A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost ...

Researchers at Keio University and other institutions say the writing is also most likely the oldest among manuscripts of commentaries on the Confucian Analects that have been handed down at ...

A Quran manuscript held at the University of Birmingham represents one of the oldest pieces of textual evidence of the Islamic holy book, according to radiocarbon analyses done by scientists.

This peculiar coincidence sent the internet into overdrive, with netizens offering everything from humour to speculation.

Their yearslong research not only established the manuscript as the oldest-known Hebrew book but also unearthed evidence that Jews had lived in Afghanistan — and along the ancient Silk Roads ...

Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

In October 1998, a battered manuscript of parchment leaves sold for $2 million to an anonymous bidder at auction. The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by ...

But as you'll see as you peruse the 300-year-old manuscript at left, this puzzle is no child's play—more like an enigma wrapped in a mystery riddled with a number of misleading clues.

TEHRAN, November 23. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday presented an old manuscript of Holy Quran as a gift to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. "Russian ...