Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. The writing — which is more than 2,000 years old — was found inside a ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is showcasing for the first time the earliest writing from ancient Egypt found on papyrus, detailing work on the Great Pyramid of Giza, antiquities officials said Thursday ...

My problem came with a recent home improvement, with the pipe that drains the condensation from the air-conditioning system. The water drips down onto the patio, making a watery mess that made moss ...

At the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, ‘From Green Papyrus to Timeless Art’ resurrects an ancient medium for writing through the ...

A historian at Harvard University has identified a fourth century fragment of papyrus which contains texts in which Jesus apparently refers to being married. Karen King, a professor at the Harvard ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare, 2,700-year-old papyrus with Hebrew script that had been looted from a cave in the Judean ...