The scroll was discovered in the Qumran Cave in the Judean Desert in 1952, about 6 miles outside of Jericho, in the West Bank. It contains two passages from Deuteronomy, 8:5-10 and 5:1–6:1. These ...

This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word 'disgust', one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

Six years after the discovery of hundreds of religious scrolls in a library basement in Lithuania, three Washington synagogues have become the first recipients of historic Jewish texts allowed to ...

Sacred scrolls containing long-lost stories and songs precious to the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa have found their way home. Forty-two scrolls more than 200 years old were returned to the band last ...

Today, more than half a billion people around the world identify as Buddhists. Since the religion originated in Nepal, it has spread to be interpreted, practiced and honored in many different ways.

LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of ...