About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often erased and reused.
Archaeology
Apr 6, 2023
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1632
What could be learnt about the world if you could read the news from over 100 local newspapers for a period of 150 years? This is what a team of Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers from the University of Bristol have ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 9, 2017
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2082
New research has uncovered the earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, an example of the principles that laid the foundations of European musical tradition.
Other
Dec 17, 2014
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Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek monk named Nikodemos was putting together a massive anthology of Byzantine texts on prayer and spirituality, which he would call The Philokalia.
Archaeology
Feb 11, 2024
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A researcher who has attracted attention and criticism with his revisionist Biblical theories says he has found new evidence that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and that early Christians considered her a deity.
Other
Nov 12, 2014
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A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven submarine are among 250,000 books to be made available online in a deal between Google and ...
Internet
Jun 20, 2011
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If you had been in London on September 2, 1666, the chances are you'd remember exactly where you were and who you were with. This was the day the Great Fire began, sweeping across the city for almost five days.
Archaeology
Nov 1, 2023
0
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A never-before seen manuscript by Scottish-based artisan Esther Inglis, dating back to the early 1600s, was unveiled at The University of St Andrews this week at The International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish ...
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2023
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(Phys.org) -- Our obsession with social networking is not exclusive to the twenty-first century, according to a team of UK researchers.
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2012
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0
Our obsession with social networking is not exclusive to the 21st century, according to researchers from Royal Holloway university.
Social Sciences
Jan 15, 2013
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