Somehow, this papyrus ended up among a collection of documents stored in caves in the Judean Desert—the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were rediscovered in the mid-20th century. As study coauthor Fritz ...

An investigation is underway in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis after 19 people were found dead aboard a vessel, authorities said. The St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force (SKNDF ...

David Lynch, the celebrated American filmmaker, artist, writer, and musician, has died, according to a message on his official Facebook page. He was 78. Often lauded as one of the finest ...

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 ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...