The Ten Commandments Scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls is on display at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley through April 24, and it’s anticipated to be a sell-out. This is the first ...

How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do you read the unreadable? That was the paradox posed by a volcanically ...

What is being described as the oldest Torah scroll known to exist has been discovered in the library of the University of Bologna. The parchment scroll, 36 meters long and 64 cm high, previously had ...

ROME – An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he had discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the ...

(This story has been updated to add the date the exhibit is expected to end.) The Dead Sea Scrolls and about 200 related artifacts are appearing in an exhibit opening Friday at the Ronald Reagan ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now carbonized into fragile, inky cylinders—lay a scroll so blackened it appeared ...

ROME - An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he has discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the ...

The Vesuvius Challenge announced that a team of students decoded the text of a 2,000-year-old volcanically preserved scroll. What does it say? Photo from EduceLab via the University of Kentucky How do ...