An expert who specialises in the area of ancient manuscripts has claimed an ancient Egyptian scroll provides evidence which ...

Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian ...

entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication.

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

It has a rich and famous history of being used as paper, growing in large populations along the Nile in Egypt. Papyrus has ...

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This piece of papyrus from the mid-Third Century BCE describes a period of famine in Egypt that occurred when the Nile River failed to flood for several years in a row. It was collected from the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old pyramid ... remarkably well-preserved wooden tools, textiles, Greek papyrus documents, colored beads, sewing needles, weapons, and bronze ...

The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards which recorded laws, taxation and government business. These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of ...