The concept of the Book of the Dead initially developed from spells found inscribed on coffins and other objects around 1650 B.C. As time went on, and ancient Egypt transitioned between kingdoms, ...

They have survived hundreds of years and provide a fascinating insight into ancient civilisations, but papyrus scrolls are now ... jotted down by an Egyptian scribe in the 4th century, recently ...

The "Book of the Dead" is a modern-day name given to a series of ancient Egyptian texts that the Egyptians ... that were typically copied onto papyrus scrolls and deposited in burials of the ...

But the Red Sea Scrolls give an unprecedented look at who built the ancient wonder. Arid conditions at the Wadi al-Jarf site in Egypt helped preserve the ancient Merer papyri, which were ...

By Franz Lidz When it came to the dicey journey to the afterlife, the more affluent citizens of ancient Egypt took no chances ... world — a placid field of reeds — then back to their final ...

At first glance, the Herculaneum scrolls look unremarkable, like pieces of coal. After surviving the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the nearly 2,000-year-old documents would crumble if ...

In the previous few months, Luke Farritor had joined a worldwide competition to translate ancient Roman scrolls that were damaged by a volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. The 21-year-old computer ...

says Nat Friedman, co-founder of the Vesuvius Challenge, which offered $1m in prizes to anyone who could use artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher papyrus scrolls carbonised by the eruption of ...

The papyrus scrolls, which are still rolled up, were essentially turned into charcoal when Mount Vesuvius erupted and reached the Roman town of Herculaneum in 79AD. But despite historians thinking ...