KYOTO--Two “kakejiku” hanging scrolls made using advanced techniques of Nishijin brocade weaving that depict famed “byobu” folding screen paintings were donated on March 14 to Kenninji ...

This is the introduction from noted scholar Hershel Shanks' book (Random House April 1998), an illuminating and readable background summary on the scrolls. Introduction Half a century has now ...

It is in that rugged cliff face, on the banks of the Dead Sea, in this arid, desolate climate, that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at the site known as Khirbet Qumran. The Scrolls were ...

From scrolls to codices to the books we know today, the Bible has taken different shapes and has been written with different techniques. The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest biblical texts ever found.

That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman ...

One of the three codices, or books, requested is the Codex Borgia, an especially colorful screen-fold book spread across dozens of pages that depicts gods and rituals from ancient central Mexico.

On April 10th, The Elder Scrolls Online Direct is happening, and the Zenimax team is promising a lot more info on ESO’s new direction and the game’s “bright future”. Since Matt Firor ...