A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving ... persons copy them down at least once beforehand onto other papyrus scrolls. A scribe working in Constantinople handwrites ...

Unfortunately, the carbon-based ink used on the Herculaneum scrolls complicated matters, as it does not readily stand out from the carbon-based papyrus itself on a CT scan. The scrolls weren’t ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are ... workers at Herculaneum discovered more than 1,000 papyrus scrolls that were singed and covered with debris when volcanic mud buried ...

Few examples in the world exhibit this arrangement. Only two other manuscripts bearing this particular layout are complete: the papyrus of the royal nurse Bakai, kept at the National Museum in ...

Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority. Among the findings so far are papyrus documents written in Greek, Ptolemaic, and Antiochus IV bronze coins, weapons, wooden tools, and well-preserved ...

The manuscript that Ms Mohamed restored belongs ... “My husband tells me I'm like a guest at home.” An ancient papyrus. But the PhD student said her husband's support was what made it possible ...

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...

The allegations are laid out in a papyrus that was discovered decades ago in the Judean desert but only recently analyzed; it contains the prosecutor’s prep sheet and the hastily drafted minutes ...