When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to organize documents at the Israel Antiquities Authority’s scrolls laboratory in 2014, she noticed something odd about a papyrus labeled as ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...

If you would like to request additional information about material in the Anaconda Geological Documents Collection or if you are a current member and would like to place a duplication order, please ...

Because of the Greek presence in the last three centuries BCE and the persistence of Greek as a primary language when Egypt became a Roman province after the death of Cleopatra, many papyrus books and ...

Thousands of documents on papyrus, the ancient Mediterranean equivalent of paper, which have fortuitously survived in arid zones of the Mediterranean basin bring us strikingly close to the lives ...

and indeed gave most European languages their very word for paper. But it was expensive - a 17-foot roll like the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus would have cost two copper deben, about the same as a ...