Sometimes science seems like science, and sometimes it seems like magic. This week, computer scientists at the University of Kentucky-Lexington described how they virtually unfurled a charred and ...

It might at first glance appear to be a lump of charcoal, but a piece of ancient scroll burned beyond all recognition can now be read for the first time since it was discovered. Scientists have used ...

By Sharon Altshul For nearly 2,200 years, it lay hidden in a cave above the Dead Sea. Now, for the first time since 1968, the ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A ...

Pioneering X-ray technology is making it possible to read fragile rolled-up historical documents for the first time in centuries. Old parchment is often extremely dry and liable to crack and crumble ...