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.

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.

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 ...

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.

A NEW Bible chapter that contains hidden verses has come to light after it was erased by a scribe 1,500 ago. The incredible discovery that dates back to the 3rd century features chapters 11 through… ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient chapter of the Bible that was hidden for more than 1,500 years underneath the text in manuscripts.

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.