Ancient Manuscripts And Texts
Articles tagged Ancient Manuscripts And Texts.
Greek Sling Bullets: Ancient Taunts Written in Lead
Sep 09, 2025-By Caiden Pannell
Greek sling bullets carried taunts such as ΔΕΞΑΙ (“Catch!”), commanders’ names and symbols. Finds from Olynthus to Hippos reveal their manufacture and battlefield use.
Voynich Manuscript: Women’s Health, Astrology, and Baths
Sep 02, 2025-By Caiden Pannell
The Voynich Manuscript's bathing women, zodiac diagrams and herbal drawings may reflect medieval medicine. What do the evidence and recent research actually establish?
How Scientists Are Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls Without Opening Them
Aug 10, 2025-By Caiden Pannell
X-ray scans and AI are recovering ancient Greek writing from the Herculaneum scrolls, including a 2026 reading of one roll’s surviving text.
Gilgamesh Tablet XII: Mesopotamia’s Underworld
Aug 09, 2025-By Caiden Pannell
Tablet XII of Gilgamesh describes Enkidu’s journey to the underworld and the fate of the dead. Its unusual ending comes from an older Sumerian...
