Ancient manuscripts

This is a very rare Syriac manuscript on Rikin Al Kiddas ( Holy Power) acquired from Turkey. It is written in Syriac Serto script. This manuscript I believe is dated but I could not read the script nor understand it. However there is a note written in Arabic "sanah 132" means year 132. Hence I believe this manuscript is dated 1132 CE. There is also a note written in Arabic that this manuscript was purchased by Abraham Ben Jacob. I welcome anyone who has any knowledge of this script…

A 6th century translation of a work of one of the most important ancient Greek doctors has been discovered in an animal-hide manuscript, hidden underneath text of 1,000-year-old hymns.

Book of Astrology and Omens, Unknown, Nepal, 14th-16th century, Books, Opaque watercolor and ink on paper.

In 2012, Islamic militants affiliated with Al-Qaeda took control of Timbuktu, in northern Mali. Eliminating anything that didn’t adhere to their extreme interpretation of the Koran, the militants destroyed thousands of archived manuscripts from the 14th and 15th centuries. When Abdel Kaider Haidara learned about this, he plotted to recover and restore the heavily damaged documents, […]

Archaeologists may have found where one of the country's oldest manuscripts was written.

Works written by ancient Greek and Roman authors have made a major impact on the world’s culture and society. They profoundly shaped medieval thought, as you can discover in Cillian O’Hogan’s article The Classical Past on the Polonsky England and France 700-1200 project website. Compared to their afterlife and significance,...

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The Tibetan culture and identity can only be preserved and protected by the Tibetans themselves and not by any others.

Photograph of four pieces of paper with verses in Sanskrit.

Introduction I would like to inform you that Voynich Manuscript MS408 is already decoded by me. Each page of the Manuscript, from the first to the last, was read. The Manuscript was written in ancient forgotten Senzar language, like mix of the Vedic Sanskrit and Devanagari, which was before them – Proto-language. The Manuscript was […]