Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...

A remarkable hidden chapter of the Bible was uncovered, shedding new light on ancient scripture after remaining concealed for ...

The twins who discovered an ancient Syriac version of the four gospels. In 1892, the widowed, middle-aged Scottish twins Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, ne Smith, discovered at St.

About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often ...

15:55, Tue, Jan 7, 2025 Updated: 16:06, Tue, Jan 7, 2025 An almost 1,500-year-old section of the Biblical text has been discovered during a recent study, scientists have revealed. The researchers used ...

14:50, Thu, May 25, 2023 Updated: 15:13, Thu, May 25, 2023 Researchers have discovered a 1,500-year-old hidden Bible passage by scanning a manuscript with an ultraviolet light. Historian Grigory ...

Scientists have found a “hidden chapter” of Biblical text nearly 1,500 years after it was first written. The lost section represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, according to the ...

THE laughable stories collected in the thirteenth century by Bar-Hebræus, the Syriac text of which, together with an English translation, has just been published by Dr. Wallis Budge, is a remarkable ...

Beirut -- Did you speak any Syriac today? If you had an extended conversation in colloquial Lebanese Arabic, chances are you did. Although most languages are governed by rigid grammatical and ...