Learn more about the papyrus that contains detailed medical procedures from Ancient Egypt.

Archeologists unearthed a 52-foot-long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing which was more than 2,000 years old from Saqqara, Egypt. Experts discovered the Book of the Dead papyrus inside a coffin in ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

During the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, a collection of papyrus scrolls with text written ... Nader is an Egyptian machine learning doctoral student at the Free ...

The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material similar to paper, made from the pith of the papyrus plant – found in the Judean desert. Consisting of 133 lines of text in ...

an Egyptian PhD student in Berlin, and Julian Schilliger, a Swiss robotics student in Zurich, deciphered text on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll, winning them $700,000 of prize money in the process.

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, ...

What were Egyptian hieroglyphs? The ancient Egyptians left behind written records on their buildings and on papyrus scrolls but how do we know what the writing means? What did the ancient ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

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

The image showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been burnt in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The latest results revealed a strip of papyrus packed with neat Greek lettering ...