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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 10th century is meeting the 21st with the University of Exeter announcing the development of an app that will make medieval manuscripts available to the public. The app, which is being developed ...

This week, we look at the use of Lego to model ancient technology and then explore the areas of manuscript digitization, 3D printing and reconstructing historical soundscapes. Finally, we head over to ...

Preservation of ancient palm-leaf manuscripts collected in Lhasa's Potala Palace in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has entered the digital archiving phase, the cultural relics research ...

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

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 The Philokalia. He lamented ...