As one stands before the encased document written 235 years ago it is obvious that time has not been kind to the faded script written on now yellowed and fragile paper. There have and always will be ...

Scientists are using American space-age technology to bring to light the faded script on thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest existing record of the Old Testament. Israeli ...

Fifty characters of faded script that may predate the Dead Sea Scrolls by nearly 1,000 years have been found within sight of where the Bible says David slew Goliath with a stone fired from his ...

On a rocky hillside in Mardan, Pakistan, in the 1990s, filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici stared in awe at a hulking pillar covered with faded script. The stone was an ancient propaganda sign, one of many ...

A reader with the eyes of a falcon prompted my favorite correction in the last few months. In a 1940s photograph of a young boy reading a page of newspaper cartoons, he noticed that the wording in the ...