This ancient legal drama unfolded during the reign of Hadrian, after the emperor’s tour of the area around A.D. 130 and presumably before A.D. 132.

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 a nutshell A 2,000-year-old papyrus discovered in Israel reveals sophisticated Roman legal procedures for prosecuting financial crimes, including tax evasion and document forgery related to slave ...

In late 2022, a digitized copy of an ancient Egyptian papyrus was sent to Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, an assistant professor of classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. The papyrus, unearthed at the ...

In their study, the team created papyrus sheets and baked them in the oven to simulate years of weathering. Next, they exposed the papyrus to microscopic fungi commonly found on ancient scrolls ...

Thousands of years ago, papyrus was used to make a number of items, such as sails, boats and baskets. It was also a writing material, and rare ancient texts were often composed on papyrus.

The oldest surviving papyrus is the Diary of Merer, excavated in 2012 and 2013 at Wadi al-Jarf and dating to c. 2560-2550 BCE.

The modern papyrus samples were painted different colours, such as red, yellow and blue, and then heated to 100°C (212°F) in an oven for 120 days to simulate the natural ageing of papyrus over ...

Researchers Reveal Text Written on Ancient Papyrus Scrolls Burned In The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius A wealth of knowledge is locked away in the hundreds of scrolls waiting to be translated.

Humans Ancient Herculaneum scroll piece revealed by AI – here's what it says A Greek philosopher’s musings on pleasure, contained in ancient papyrus scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius’s ...

16-Meter-Long “Book of the Dead” Ancient Papyrus Found in Egyptian Sarcophagus. Credit: Public Domain A 16-meter-long (52.5 ft) papyrus was discovered recently in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus by a ...