Greek

Thousands of clay tablets from the Minoan palace at Knossos, written in Linear B and dated around 1400 to 1200 BCE. Michael Ventri...

The oldest substantially intact manuscript found in Greece, carbonized and preserved in a tomb at Derveni, dated around 340 BCE. I...

Over 1,800 carbonized papyrus rolls from the Villa of the Papyri, buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE. Mostly works of the Epicurean philo...

Half a million papyrus fragments excavated from rubbish mounds of Oxyrhynchus since 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt. They include lost G...

One of the two oldest complete Greek Bibles, written around 330 to 360 CE on parchment in uncial script. Found at St Catherine Mon...

The other great 4th century Greek Bible, cataloged in the Vatican Library by 1475 and prized as perhaps the oldest near-complete N...

A 5th century Greek Bible of the whole Old and New Testaments, brought from Alexandria to Constantinople and presented to King Cha...

The oldest surviving illuminated Biblical codex, a 6th century Greek Book of Genesis written in silver ink on purple-dyed parchmen...

A 6th century Greek gospel book famous for its series of painted scenes of the life of Christ, the earliest surviving cycle of gos...

The chief manuscript of Homer's Iliad, copied around 950 in Byzantium with the full set of ancient marginal scholia, the commentar...

A 10th century copy of works of Archimedes, erased in 1229 and overwritten with a prayer book. Imaging since 1998 recovered unique...

A bilingual manuscript of the Gospels and Acts from around 400, with Greek on the left page and Latin on the right. Its text depar...

A group of early Christian papyrus codices bought by mining magnate Alfred Chester Beatty in the early 1930s. They include P45, P4...

A papyrus scrap the size of a credit card carrying lines from John 18 on both sides, often cited as the earliest known fragment of...