Smithsonian Magazine

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator Is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.
America Magazine

Pope Leo XIV: Understanding Scripture’s divine Author—and human authors

In his General Audience message on Feb 4., Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

The Pittsfield tefillin and the homeless at Sinai

In 1823, Vermont Congregationalist minister Ethan Smith published “View of the Jews,” which featured the Pittsfield tefillin ...

How hieroglyphs became the sacred script of the ancient Egyptians

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.