Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

Accompanied by the original music of Cornelius Selamsis, the performance presents a narrative and musical composition at the ...

Fragments of two lost ancient Greek plays by playwright Euripides found in Egypt were remade into a play combining theater / ...

It was rediscovered in 2014, and now the 133-line papyrus has finally been translated from its original Greek. The scroll contains a prosecutor's notes from a trial that took place around 131 C.E ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 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.