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

Before vision boards and TikTok affirmations, ancient cultures also believed that the power of thought could reshape their ...

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

The Egyptian Empire was one of the most powerful in the world in its day, thanks in no small part to a host of inventions.

The Malabathrinum papyrus (P.Vindob. G 35250, Herakleopolis/Middle Egypt, 5th century CE) contains a recipe for an eye ...

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 ...

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.

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in ... One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for "disgust". Peter Toth, a curator at the Bodleian Library, said ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of ... One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for “disgust.” Scholars are being encouraged to join in the ...

The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add ... One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for “disgust.” Scholars are being ...

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.

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...