Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of text, an ancient piece of papyrus shows how even Roman government had to deal with fraudsters every now and then, according to a study published in the ...

The oldest written recipe found in Egypt is dated back to approximately the year 300 AD, and it was written on papyrus in the ...

When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to organize documents at the Israel Antiquities Authority’s scrolls laboratory in 2014, she noticed something odd about a papyrus labeled as ...

You can see three types of marginal signs in the left margin of the second column. One indicates change of speaker; the second indicates overlaps between the papyrus text and the tradition of ...

Babylon’s soap-making legacy dates back to 2800 BCE, where ancient techniques shaped hygiene practices and influenced modern ...

The papyrus scroll was one of 1800 rescued from a single room in the remnants of an ornate villa in the Roman town of Herculaneum during the 1750s, which is now the Italian town of Ercolano.

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...

deciphered text on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll, winning them $700,000 of prize money in the process. The scroll is just one of hundreds that were first excavated in 1752. Named the Herculaneum ...

In 2024, he catapulted into the limelight by doing something that had stumped historians for centuries—deciphering a 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum using artificial ...

PAPYRUS, a charity based in the North West, is asking the government and all political parties to help stop young people from taking their own lives ...