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 ...

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 ...

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 ...