Many of the well-known red frescoes in Pompeii were once yellow, according to a new study conducted by Italy’s National Institute of Optics. “I am always a bit suspicious of these claims. We know that some of the red was once yellow, but I’m not sure that we can be certain about the proportions. What […]

Images of five of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been placed online by Google and Jerusalem’s Israel Museum. “Some of these images are appearing for the first time in Google – what no one has seen for 2,000 years and no scholar since the Dead Sea Scrolls were found,” said James Charlesworth, director of the Princeton […]