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 ...

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

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

And we use the River Nile to provide water for our crops. And you’re even using papyrus. Child: It’s paper actually. Ancient Egyptian: Well, whatever you call it, we invented it. We use it to ...

“This document shows that core Roman institutions documented in Egypt were also implemented throughout the empire,” notes co-author Fritz Mitthof of the University of Vienna. The papyrus also ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of text, an ancient piece of papyrus shows how even Roman government had to ...

The scroll had been classified as Nabataean, an ancient Arabic dialect, but as Cotton Paltiel studied it, she realized that it was actually written in Greek — and the race began to decipher what the 1 ...