It needs a moist environment and prefers standing water, with papyrus ideal for planting on the edge of shallow ponds or ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones ...

Join an experience of discovery in one of the richest desert excavations ever conducted, illuminating and transforming our historical knowledge of a unique site.

You can see three types of marginal signs in the left margin of the second column. One indicates change of speaker; the second indicates overlaps between the papyrus text and the tradition of ...

The papyrus of Senemnetjer is among the earliest known examples of this funerary text, which was used to guide the soul of ...

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...