Smith purchased the papyrus and returned to buy additional pieces he later identified as a continuation of the scroll. Now known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus, this ancient text has given scholars a ...

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.

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The papyrus ...

Now, Farritor is a key player in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE—yes, named with the kind of meme-savvy irreverence only Musk could muster. DOGE isn’t your typical ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

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 ...

A SUICIDE prevention charity based in Warrington has warned it may need to reduce its services due to "unprecedented financial pressures." Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide, which supports young ...