Originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the Bible is the most sold book in history, it first translation into another ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

At the same time, the papyrus provides insight into a cultural and intellectual environment in which Roman law, Greek rhetoric, and Jewish life meet.” The authors believe the study of the ...

A unique opportunity to test ancient Egyptian perfumes is underway in an exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir ...