Recorded in front of an audience and to accompany a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library, actors have brought this ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them ...

More than 10 million books, maps and artefacts belonging to Oxford University's world-famous Bodleian Library are ... weather forecast for the East of England from BBC Look East.

was Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford between 1986 and 1996, a febrile period when the Bodleian Library was on the cusp of modernisation but struggling to stave off a funding crisis ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in ...

A “distinguished and loyal” librarian based at Oxford University has died aged 89. David Vaisey CBE was Bodleian Librarian for a decade having originally been a student reading Modern History ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...