Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

A 900-year-old book by Saint Malachy predicts Judgement Day in 2027. The prophecy, tied to Pope Francis, resurfaces amid ...

A 900-year-old book found in the Vatican Secret Archives has an eerie link to Pope Francis health and claims to predict the year of Judgement Day - and some believe it's very soon ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are, those like the Archimedes palimpsest that were hand-written on parchment and other materials long before the invention of the printing ...

Some of the pages are missing, possibly because of a theft in the 11th century, but it is remarkably complete for a text that is so old. The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a ...

But as you'll see as you peruse the 300-year-old manuscript at left, this puzzle is no child's play—more like an enigma wrapped in a mystery riddled with a number of misleading clues.