The papyrus, named P. Cotton in recognition of Prof. Emerita Hannah Cotton-Paltiel’s discovery, contains 133 lines of Greek ...

The papyrus, named P. Cotton in recognition of Prof. Emerita Hannah Cotton-Paltiel’s discovery, contains 133 lines of Greek text and is the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert.

Details of the gripping case were lost for almost 2,000 years, but have now come to light after researchers translated the ...

A 1,900-year-old papyrus written in Greek has been deciphered for the first time by a group of Israeli and Austrian scholars. The artifact, renamed Papyrus Cotton, features the notes of a trial in ...

Researchers in Austria and Israel have translated the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert. Previously unearthed, misidentified, and then nearly forgotten, Hannah Cotton Paltiel ...

Among the numerous fragments of lost Greek classics, the most noteworthy that we have hitherto deciphered are (1) a first century B. C. papyrus containing on one side an epinician ode or odes by a ...

Ancient Philadelphia and Greek Papyri from EgyptBasem Gehad has been directing excavations at the Ancient Philadelphia Necropolis in the Egyptian Fayoum since 2016. His team has cleaned tombs that ...

The ancient Greek hymn is by far the oldest surviving piece of Christian music—it predates the next notated work by six centuries. Inspired by the ancient fragment, Dickson reached out to Ben ...

The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe.