The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

In the Roman Empire’s heyday, legal disputes and fiscal controversies were commonplace. While emperors paraded in marble-clad ...

An extraordinary, lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient Judaea. The details point to ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

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

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

The papyrus features a prosecutors’ notes for a trial before Roman authorities, including transcripts of an actual judicial hearing. One unnamed prosecutor highlights the power of evidence ...