Palm-leaf manuscripts hold hidden marks of how scribes prepared them, X-rays show
For centuries, people across South and Southeast Asia wrote religious texts, laws, literature and science on palm leaves.…
Scientists burn their own scrolls to help read 2,000-year-old Herculaneum papyri
X-ray scans and artificial intelligence could help researchers read more Herculaneum scrolls without opening them. Tiny amounts of…
Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds
Many stories from the Middle Ages never reached the present. A new study suggests the loss was far…