So we can shake hands with these people from 2,000 years ago, and we can put them in time much better now,” said Professor Mladen Popović, University of Groningen, in reference to a discovery that is ...

The papyri scrolls that have been discovered come from a variety of different time periods across ancient Egyptian history. According to Getty, Book of the Dead spells were meant to be read aloud. By ...

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 ...

A new analysis of Dead Sea Scrolls that paired radiocarbon dating with AI has determined many of the biblical manuscripts are ...

Anthropologists at Charles University in Prague found that ancient Egyptian ... in one hand and a reed brush in the other.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Herculaneum scrolls are hundreds of papyri that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. In their charred state, the ancient documents would crumble if anyone attempted to unroll them ...

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 ...

Islam Issa’s Alexandria: The City that Changed the World is a history of Egypt’s second city ... and ceiling-high cabinets filled with papyrus scrolls – and possibly over one million ...