A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of text, an ancient piece of papyrus shows how even Roman government had to ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Smith sensed the scroll had great value, and he also suspected the merchant selling the ancient text didn’t recognize its value. Smith purchased the papyrus and returned to buy additional pieces he ...

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

and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The ancient canvas highlighted a forgery case in ...