When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography mdash the study of historical writing systems mdash ...

Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You could write them more quickly than their majuscule count ...

The most challenging part of studying Heege’s records, Wade confessed, was deciphering his handwriting. The discipline of studying old manuscripts is called paleography. “It is all the more difficult ...