Detail of the word written by Cleopatra. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Others believe it was a high-ranking official who penned it. Either way, the papyrus—catalogued as P.25239—is ...

UNESCO has previously recognized Greek cultural elements, including the Derveni Papyrus (2015), Dodona oracle tablets (2023), Byzantine Chant (2019), and Epirus polyphonic song (2020). A Milestone for ...

Test your math with Papyrus Problems in Civilization 7 In Civilization 7, you are asked, “there are seven houses, and each house has seven cats. Each cat kills seven mice, and each mouse has ...

In Civ 7, the Papyrus Problem event is a reference to a real-life mathematic problem commonly known as the Seven Houses Riddle. You might also recognize how similar it is to the "As I Was Going To ...

The papyrus dates back to between 129 and 132 C.E. Israel Antiquities Authority. Back in 2014, a researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rediscovered an ancient papyrus while ...

A 1,900-year-old papyrus written in Greek has been deciphered for the first time by a group of Israeli and Austrian scholars. The artifact, renamed Papyrus Cotton, features the notes of a trial in ...

The researchers found that the papyrus contained a set of notes that a prosecutor may have used to prepare for a trial in front of Roman officials during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 117 to ...

Researchers in Austria and Israel have translated the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert. Previously unearthed, misidentified, and then nearly forgotten, Hannah Cotton Paltiel ...

The Derveni Papyrus, named for the location where it was found, is believed to date to between 340 and 320 B.C.E. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On January 15, 1962, archaeologists in Greece ...