But translating it was no easy task. “It is a long and difficult papyrus and more interesting than any of the others I have published or read,” Cotton Paltiel told All That’s Interesting in an email. ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities ...

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert was not what it seemed. The newly translated scroll reveals extraordinary details of a judicial ...

Palestinians, as I wrote in a column earlier this month ... for rampaging Israeli settlers and a host of seaside resorts. All of it, every crazed, diabolical ounce of it, is the stuff of dreams ...

Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the ...

Being good is for everyone. We are all good now that “You’re all good” has replaced both the Commonwealth “No worries” and the American standard “That’s OK.” And it’s not always ...