Researchers have shed new light on "magical" texts created centuries ago in Egypt with the intention of bringing about changes in the lives of those who used them. For the past five years, two ...

Worn as a note in an amulet around the neck, deposited in a grave or found as a manual in a scholar's library: magical texts were once widespread. They were used, among other things, in the hope to ...

The project team at the start of work at the end of 2018 in the University Library's manuscript collection with (from left) Markéta Preininger, Korshi Dosoo and Edward O. D. Love. A team of scholars ...

Today, Canva announces Magic Write, a text-generation tool that can generate everything from ideas for blog posts to a cover letter. But AI text is quietly — and probably inevitably — moving into more ...

The Newberry Library in Chicago is home to some 80,000 documents pertaining to religion during the early modern period, a time of sweeping social, political, and cultural change spanning the late ...

Remember the amazing Magic Compose feature that rolled out on Google Messages for RCS chats? Well, users of the app that text via SMS and MSM channels may finally benefit from this feature. This is ...

"Magical" texts from Egypt in Coptic script and language are at the center of a research project at the University of Würzburg. They have now been collected and scientifically annotated for the first ...