Princeton University has placed a new digital library of 200 Islamic manuscripts online for scholars to consult and study. These manuscripts were selected from some 9,500 volumes of Islamic ...

When authorities recently seized an ancient Bible at a checkpoint and handed it over to the Department of Antiquities, the incident served as a reminder of the enduring historical and cultural value ...

Detail from a 14th-century miniature Greek manuscript depicting scenes from the life of Alexander the Great. Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek monk ...

It has been another big week in digital archaeology and history, folks. In this week's Digest, we explore the digitization of Biblical manuscripts, ancient timepieces, Byzantine shipwrecks and the ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — At Lehigh University, a visitor to the Linderman Library can plunge into the Middle Ages and study a 15th-century text that shows the Earth as the center of the universe. Or touch the ...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Facsimile editions of ancient manuscripts are fighting the digital revolution in the publishing industry, according to one of the leading publishers offering ...

St. Catherine’s Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site that’s located on rugged terrain at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, houses the oldest continually operating library in the world, containing ...

The Gyan Bharatam initiative has digitised over 7.5 lakh manuscripts, with 1.29 lakh accessible online. Launched in the ...

TOKYO & ROME--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, today announced it was selected to contribute to the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...