A charred papyrus, long considered impossible to read without destroying it, has finally revealed its contents. Thanks to ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy at Egypt's Al-Bahnasa necropolis with a papyrus containing text from Homer's ...

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

A team of German scientists has used a combination of cutting-edge physics techniques to virtually “unfold” an ancient Egyptian papyrus, part of an extensive collection housed in the Berlin Egyptian ...

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert was not what it seemed. The newly translated scroll reveals extraordinary details of a judicial hearing ...

It didn’t look like much, but the allegedly ancient scrap of papyrus — the size of a business card — promised to upend Christianity. Translated from the old-Egyptian language of Coptic to English, its ...

A team of scholars has used cutting edge technology to piece together sections of a 2,000 year-old scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed tens of thousands as it ...

Archaeologists at Egypt’s ancient Oxyrhynchus site have discovered a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, marking the first known instance of a Greek ...

REUTERS - Scientists who examined a controversial fragment of papyrus written in Egyptian Coptic in which Jesus speaks of his wife concluded in papers published on Thursday that the papyrus and ink ...