A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence.

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount ...

Archaeologists were stunned after recently discovering one of the greatest works of Western literature placed on top of a mummy in Egypt. The one-of-a-kind discovery was announced by the University of ...

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A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic ...

Researchers found a 3,300-year-old papyrus where an artist used white pigment to slim a jackal figure. The correction appears in a Book of the Dead created for the royal scribe Ramose. Analysis ...

New light has been shed on the working methods—and attention to detail—of Ancient Egyptian craftspeople, after researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, identified what has been ...

The papyrus, known as Anastasi I, or “The Satirical Letter,” is believed by most to take the form of a somewhat mocking letter written between two army scribes. A 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus ...

When I walked into the Amon Papyrus Museum on the outskirts of Cairo on Abo el Houl Street, near the Giza plateau, I expected a quick tour and perhaps a souvenir or two. What I didn’t expect was to be ...

When archaeologists unsealed a coffin in Egypt’s vast Saqqara necropolis, they expected the usual array of bones, wrappings and amulets. What they did not expect was a meticulously rolled, ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained within the country for half a millennium, and it wasn’t until the 11th ...