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 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 ...

Players following the Science Legacy Path may encounter a Narrative Event titled "The Papyrus Problem" in Civilization 7. This Narrative Event asks players to solve a mathematical problem, one whose ...

The papyrus containing the only word written by Cleopatra herself that has survived to the present day. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the display cases of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ...

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 ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of ...

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 1,900-year-old papyrus recently deciphered for the first time has offered an unprecedented testimony on life in the land of Israel on the eve of the Bar Kochba revolt (132-135 CE), new research by a ...

Researchers have finally deciphered a 1,900-year-old scroll describing a tense court case during the Roman occupation of Israel. The finding reveals more about criminal cases from the time and answers ...

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 ...