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

The papyrus, named P. Cotton in recognition of Prof. Emerita Hannah Cotton-Paltiel’s discovery, contains 133 lines of Greek text and is the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert.

the papyrus includes 133 lines of text. “It is the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean desert,” Dolganov said. Based on the inventory number, the researcher explained that the ...

usp=sharing The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert, comprising over 133 lines of text, has now been published for the first time. Initially misclassified as Nabataean ...

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.

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

The papyrus revealed how the imperial state dealt with financial crimes - specifically tax fraud involving slaves - in Judaea and Arabia.

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is ... at least once beforehand onto other papyrus scrolls. A scribe working in ...

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 ...

The important finds from his excavations include mummy portraits, gabled-roof coffins, traditional Egyptian-style coffins, and almost 30 new papyri in Greek and Demotic (the second to last stage of ...