The books, credit card sized codices, are thought to be among the earliest existing Christian documents, possibly predating the writings of St Paul. David Elkington, 49, a religious author ...

Dating them to mere decades after Jesus' death, scholars have called the "lead codices" the most important discovery in archaeological history, and leading media outlets have added fuel to the ...

The codices are said to have been found in a Jordanian cave Questions have been raised over the claims of a self-styled archaeologist who is arguing that a set of supposedly ancient Christian ...

Another huge repository of medieval codices, physical and virtual, is a Benedictine monastery in Minnesota: the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library. It began in the cold war, hoping to retain a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Baltazar Brito, director of the National Library of Anthropology and History, hailed the discovery of the three codices as "unprecedented." They reveal traditional Indigenous script that "until ...

AMMAN — The Department of Antiquities (DoA) has announced that the lead codices allegedly found in a northern Jordan cave between 2005-2007 have been proven forged. The codices, comprised of more than ...

Explanation: While there is no hard evidence that babies were stabbed in their mothers’ wombs, the scientists studied the sacrificial rituals on codices and discovered that pregnant women were ...

Dating back hundreds to thousands of years, codices can reveal much about an ancient culture, that is, if you can decipher the text. Often written in an outdated language with unfamiliar grammar ...

The collection known as the “Colección de Códices Originales Mexicanos” (Collection of Original Mexican Codices) of the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia” comprises one pre-Hispanic codex ...

We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century ...