Initially, it was a manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew, written in Old Syriac. Later, a scribe in Palestine removed the original text to reuse the parchment, overwriting it with Greek text.

That appears to be the case for a scribe in Palestine, who reportedly erased a manuscript inscribed with a Syriac text about 1,300 years ago, according to the Phys.org news service.

The Syriac translation was written at least a century before the oldest Greek manuscripts that have survived, including the Codex Sinaiticus – the 4th-Century Christian manuscript of the Greek ...

Archivists have uncovered a long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript: the earliest known map of the stars, according to the Museum of the Bible. CNN values your feedback 1.

Researchers have discovered a 1,500-year-old hidden Bible passage by scanning a manuscript with an ultraviolet light. Historian Grigory Kessel made the remarkable discovery, believed to be a ...

Researchers find first-known map of the stars, hidden under old Syriac manuscript Scholars at DC’s Museum of the Bible uncover part of Greek astronomer Hipparchus’ long-lost map of the stars ...

Archivists have uncovered a long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript: the earliest known map of the stars, according to the Museum of the Bible.