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

Saqqara reveals more of its hidden secrets with the unveiling of a trove of treasures found on January 17th, including ...

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

Gorgias the philosopher challenged reality, truth, and knowledge in ancient Greece, centuries before modern nihilism emerged.

Such virtual unrolling is a two-stage process pioneered by W. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky.

The so-called “Papyrus of Cleopatra,” dated February 23, 33 BCE, is a royal decree that exempts a Roman citizen from paying fees for exporting Egyptian wheat and importing Greek wine. It also grants ...

Deciphering the papyrus and reconstructing its intricate narrative posed major challenges to Dr. Dolganov. “The letters are tiny and densely packed, and the Greek is highly rhetorical and full ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old pyramid in the Judean Desert which was filled with immaculately preserved artifacts such as weapons, beads, and papyrus documents.

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.

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

Archaeology breakthrough as 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on ancient criminal case The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.