Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona have identified a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad placed directly on the ...

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.

The scroll was first discovered in the 1750s but was too fragile to open. Using AI, scholars deciphered the full text and ...

Nearly 2000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, hundreds of papyrus scrolls were buried under ash. Long considered ...

Researchers have used AI to virtually unwrap and decipher a nearly 2,000-year-old Herculaneum papyrus scroll buried in the AD79 Vesuvius eruption. The technique revealed previously hidden Stoic ...

The Egyptian Museum with its papyrus collection houses the most significant collection of Egyptian high culture. Among its ...

McDonnell sourced the rare sycamore figs from a 1,400-year-old grove from a friend who was also conducting research in Egypt.

In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists recently discovered a 1,600-year-old tomb with several mummies inside. Some of them were decorated with gold leaf or geometric ...

Stationery seller Papyrus will shutter all of its retail stores after its parent company filed for bankruptcy. Schurman Fine Papers, the Tennessee-based firm that operates the artsy greeting-card ...

Ancient Egyptians turned papyrus into paper and provided the world with it for thousands of years. Hundreds of thousands of books in the Royal Library in Alexandria and Rome's 58 public libraries were ...

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour ...