Pencil marks disappear thanks to molecular science and heat. Graphite sticks to paper via weak forces. Erasers lift graphite due to stronge...

Word of the day: Rare words endure because they express experiences that ordinary language often struggles to capture. While modern vocabul...

Aristotle, the legendary philosopher of ancient Greece, asserted that greatness is the result of purposeful action rather than mere luck. I...

Eighteenth-century workers in Herculaneum unearthed a unique Roman library preserved by the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. These carbonized papyr...

Amidst the arid expanse of the Egyptian desert, a serendipitous find in 1945 revealed hidden scrolls within a clay vessel. These codices pr...

Scientists have uncovered ancient astronomical texts hidden beneath medieval writings. Using advanced X-ray technology, researchers found f...

Gauranga Das, an ISKCON monk, highlights how nonchalance damages relationships. He explains that pretending not to care is a sign of immatu...

A chance discovery by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947 led to the unearthing of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient manuscripts found i...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Samrat Samprati Museum in Gujarat, highlighting its message of peace and non-violence amidst g...

A missing piece of the famous Archimedes Palimpsest has been found. This ancient Greek document, scraped clean in the Middle Ages, holds wr...

Today's Word of the Day: Palimpsest is a manuscript page that has been written on more than once, or anything that shows evidence of earlie...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the 'Gyan Bharatam' portal, a digital repository to preserve and disseminate ancient Indian manuscrip...

A recent exhibition in New Delhi showcased South Asian manuscripts, highlighting their journey across Asia over two millennia. The exhibiti...

A manuscript depicting Jesus Christ's childhood has been decoded by researchers in Germany.

The one-year course revolves around the study of history and literature, and deciphering historical manuscripts.

The numbers appear in an ancient Indian text called the Bakhshali manuscript, which consists of 70 leaves of birch bark, filled with mathem...

The idea of cataloguing India's medical manuscripts was born at a seminar organised by the National Mission for Manuscripts and hosted by F...