The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

Evidence preserved in papyri and graffiti indicate ancient Greek and Roman tourists visited Egypt to admire the Egyptian civilization.

Experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rediscovered this papyrus, the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean desert.

In 1962, archaeologists uncovered an extraordinary artifact in a tomb near Thessaloniki, Greece—the Derveni Papyrus.

ProtoSnap is just the latest in a growing list of AI breakthroughs reshaping how historians read the past. In 2023, a team of ...

The Malabathrinum papyrus (P.Vindob. G 35250, Herakleopolis/Middle Egypt, 5th century CE) contains a recipe for an eye ...

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

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls ... X-ray and CT scans to distinguish ink from the papyrus it was printed on.

she realized that it was actually written in Greek — and the race began to decipher what the 1,900-year-old papyrus said. After studying the scroll, a team of academics was able to determine ...

Before vision boards and TikTok affirmations, ancient cultures also believed that the power of thought could reshape their ...

In October 2023, Farritor and Nader found the ancient Greek word πορφύρας ("purple ... 172 is one of nearly 2,000 carbonized scrolls and charred papyrus fragments found in the lost ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were burned when Mount Vesuvius erupted.