In 1962, archaeologists uncovered an extraordinary artifact in a tomb near Thessaloniki, Greece—the Derveni Papyrus.

Experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rediscovered this papyrus, the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean desert.

she realized that it was actually written in Greek — and the race began to decipher what the 1,900-year-old papyrus said. After studying the scroll, a team of academics was able to determine ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls ... X-ray and CT scans to distinguish ink from the papyrus it was printed on.

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is ... at least once beforehand onto other papyrus scrolls. A scribe working in ...

Evidence preserved in papyri and graffiti indicate ancient Greek and Roman tourists visited Egypt to admire the Egyptian civilization.

The word was translated from Greek to mean "purple dye" or "clothes ... lost treasures from Aristotle or Homer in the other 280 papyri, Nature reported. Read next ...

The important finds from his excavations include mummy portraits, gabled-roof coffins, traditional Egyptian-style coffins, and almost 30 new papyri in Greek and Demotic (the second to last stage of ...