That is why old books are so precious to us—they ... discovered a collection of jars containing seven parchment scrolls. The shepherd took the scrolls to a Bethlehem antiques dealer, hoping ...

Unlike the typical humanities researcher, however, Tim Stinson explores beyond merely what's written on centuries-old ...

Parchment can be recycled by scraping off any ink and writing on the fresh surface. The old text isn’t entirely gone, though. It remains embedded in the page as a ghostly shadow, which can be ...