For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our ...

This skeleton had blue plaque, but finding out why required a long investigation by physicists and historians as well as archaeologists. Eventually an analytical technique called micro-Raman ...

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While many remote scribes are based in the United States, others are abroad, primarily in India. Chanchal Toor was a dental school graduate facing limited job opportunities in India when a ...

Relief depicting two scribes from Mastaba of Akhethotep at Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty. Collection of The Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images.