King’s College London has proposed cutting its paleography program (paleography is the deciphering and reading of historical manuscripts) and eliminating its Chair of Paleography, which is the only ...

The project and some preliminary results were presented at a conference at the university last week: while in many instances, some scrolls might be more ancient than previously thought. A new project ...

The kitchen-sized Institut de Papyrologie at Paris’ ancient Sorbonne University is one of the oddities of modern science. In an era of high-budget research, the institute operates with a few dollars’ ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...

Egyptologist and paleography expert Elizabeth Bettles analyzes hieroglyphs painted on the walls of tombs in the Theban necropolis. By identifying different “handwriting” techniques — distinct shapes, ...

Harvard Medieval Art History Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger embarked on a crusade last week to save a rare professorship at King’s College London from being eliminated due to budget cuts. Hamburger ...

*It's the art of reading old forms of hand-writing. A lot of those antique documents, even in English, are well-nigh inexplicable nowadays unless you know what you're doing with them. Top Design ...

Reading old handwriting is an ongoing challenge for family researchers. It turns out that nothing can replace actual experience when it comes to interpreting old documents. The more we work with ...

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