artifacts

An ancient Greek hand-powered analog computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses.

Ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 in caves near the Dead Sea, dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, comprising biblical, apocryphal, and sectarian texts.

An ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC, which became the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Voynich Manuscript is an undeciphered 15th-century illustrated codex written in an unknown script, now housed at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.