A retired Wigan police officer is limbering up for a rugby-themed bike ride aimed at clocking up 850 miles and thousands of ...

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 ...

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

Six teenage boys are planning to ride from Telford to Liverpool in memory of a friend who took his own life. They all attended Haberdashers Adams in Newport, Shropshire, along with Max Turton, who ...

A JUNIOR rugby coach is cycling to 90 clubs to raise money for a Warrington charity. Phil Housley, a Papyrus volunteer and ...

On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known 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 ...

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 ...