Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

Papyrus making workshops transport participants to the ancient world of paper crafting, originating in Egypt 's Nile Delta.

You can see three types of marginal signs in the left margin of the second column. One indicates change of speaker; the second indicates overlaps between the papyrus text and the tradition of ...

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 ...

They are made from scraps of papyrus which were used by ancient Egyptians for shopping lists or tax returns. The technology is giving historians a new insight into everyday life in ancient Egypt.

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 ...