An extraordinary, lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient Judaea. The details point to two individuals being guilty of fraud, forgery, and slave trade. The ...

This is the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt. It contains 84 different mathematical problems - such as how to distribute 100 loaves of bread among a workforce in ...

Scientists have finally unlocked the secrets of a mysterious 2,000-year-old papyrus document. The strange artifact, which has mirror writing on both sides, has baffled experts for centuries. Written ...

The papyrus dates back to between 129 and 132 C.E. Israel Antiquities Authority Back in 2014, a researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rediscovered an ancient papyrus while organizing a ...

A charred papyrus, long considered impossible to read without destroying it, has finally revealed its contents. Thanks to artificial intelligence, researchers accessed the text without opening the ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities ...

In a pioneering project funded by the Mellon Foundation, scholars at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich are compiling a database of Arabic documents, many dating from the early years of Islam. The ...

Long before it filled our notepads and books, paper was an idea locked up inside the tall, slender, and sturdy stalks of a grass-like plant that grew abundantly along the muddy banks of the Nile in ...

The document actually consisted of multiple sheets of papyrus that had been glued together, perhaps to be used as book binding in a common form of medieval “recycling” University of Basel Upon his ...