The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome When I walked into the Amon Papyrus Museum on the outskirts of Cairo on Abo el Houl ...

The papyrus P. Herc. 1018. Credit: Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III,” Napoli–Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale The newly read fragments of ...

The Herculaneum papyri, scrolls buried and charred by Vesuvius, are the most tantalizing puzzle in Roman archaeology. I recently visited the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, where most of the papyri ...

The 10 plagues include swarms of locusts, three days of darkness and the death of every firstborn son A MYSTERIOUS papyrus scroll has the potential to prove the story of the 10 plagues of Egypt ...

An ancient Egyptian manuscript may prove the biblical 10 plagues described in the Book of Exodus. Known as the Ipuwer Papyrus, the document takes the form of a poetic lament attributed to a scribe ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale of slaves. A manuscript discovered in the ...

As you navigate through the Legacy Paths in Civilization 7, you will be presented with various narrative events. One of those narrative events asks you to solve Papyrus Problems during a Civilization ...

After receiving his degree in Journalism & Media Communications from CSU in 2019, Erik began building his career in online media, and found his dream job when he joined Game Rant as a staff writer.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...