Paper’s invention was a revolutionary breakthrough. Following the invention of paper in 105 CE, forms of communication, learning, and record-keeping were drastically simplified. We track its rich ...

The concept of “virtual unwrapping” first gained attention when this imaging method was used on the En-Gedi Scroll, an ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

According to a recent analysis of a 1,900-year-old papyrus from ancient Rome, taxes and tax evasion have existed for millenia. "It was an incredibly lucky rediscovery that brought this ...

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert was not what it seemed. The newly translated scroll reveals extraordinary details of a judicial ...

“We're going to be looking at some of the materials from the Middle East collection, notably some Arabic papyrus fragments,” said Lyuba Basin, rare books librarian at J. Willard Marriott Librar ...

A 1,900-year-old papyrus recently deciphered for the first time has offered an unprecedented testimony on life in the land of Israel on the eve of the Bar Kochba revolt (132-135 CE), new research ...

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 allegations are laid out in a papyrus that was discovered decades ago in the Judean desert but only recently analyzed; it contains the prosecutor’s prep sheet and the hastily drafted minutes ...