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

Experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rediscovered this papyrus, the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean desert.

usp=sharing The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert, comprising over 133 lines of text, has now been published for the first time. Initially misclassified as Nabataean ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls ... X-ray and CT scans to distinguish ink from the papyrus it was printed on.

At the same time, the papyrus provides insight into a cultural and intellectual environment in which Roman law, Greek rhetoric, and Jewish life meet.” The authors believe the study of the ...

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

Evidence preserved in papyri and graffiti indicate ancient Greek and Roman tourists visited Egypt to admire the Egyptian civilization.

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is ... at least once beforehand onto other papyrus scrolls. A scribe working in ...

The important finds from his excavations include mummy portraits, gabled-roof coffins, traditional Egyptian-style coffins, and almost 30 new papyri in Greek and Demotic (the second to last stage of ...