Paper’s invention was a revolutionary breakthrough. Following the invention of paper in 105 CE, forms of communication, learning, and record-keeping were drastically simplified. We track its rich ...

In mid-2023, researchers at the University of Hamburg uncovered a piece of early Christian history during a routine digitization project. Scholars Gabriel Nocchi Macedo and his colleague, Lajos ...

The document itself—which went unnoticed for ... in a complex style that linked it to Roman legal proceedings. The papyrus features a prosecutors’ notes for a trial before Roman authorities ...

Once found in the Judean Desert, the document’s script had previously been classified as Nabataean—an ancient Aramaic language—but papyrus expert Hannah Cotton knew better. “When I saw it ...

The document had been classified as written in Nabataean, an ancient Arabic dialect. "When I saw it marked 'Nabataean,' I exclaimed, 'It's Greek to me!", papyrus expert Hannah Cotton of the Hebrew ...

"It's extremely historically substantial. It's one of those documents that very few scholars get to work on in the whole of their career." The papyrus, found in the Judean desert in the 1950s ...

A newly deciphered manuscript, dating back to the 4th or 5th century – that’s about 1,600 years – has been determined by researchers to be the oldest and earliest surviving record of Jesus ...

The fragment under discussion here, discovered in the Hamburg archive, is part of a huge volume of papyrus documents that were collected in Egypt and then deposited in various Western archives and ...

“This papyrus is extraordinary because it provides ... Both were accused of forging documents. “Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or ...

“This papyrus is extraordinary because it provides ... accused of tax fraud and document forgery. Gadalias, the son of a notary and possibly a Roman citizen, had a history of criminal activities ...

"For the past 18 months, we've been closely studying these papyrus documents," Macedo said, according to BioBioChile. The fragment, measuring approximately 11 by 5 centimeters and dating from the ...