The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn’t fluent enough to decode the text. Smith sensed the scroll had great value, and he also ...

Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...

African papyrus artistry, originating in Egypt and extending throughout the continent, entails the crafting of paper from the ...

Archeologists unearthed a 52-foot-long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing which was more than 2,000 years old from Saqqara, Egypt. Experts discovered the Book of the Dead papyrus inside a coffin in ...

Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus reed, from which the modern word paper is derived. However, the priests ...

THE GOLDMINE PAPYRUS. DATE: ca. 1151–1145 B.C. MATERIAL: Papyrus. Dimensions: 9 feet by 1.3 feet. FOUND: Deir el-Medina, Egypt. The world’s oldest known geological map is a nine-foot-long ...