Archeologists unearthed a 52-foot-long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing which was more than 2,000 years old from Saqqara, Egypt. Experts discovered the Book of the Dead papyrus inside a coffin in ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire ...

For the first time in 1,900 years, humans have been able to read ancient text dating from the height of the Roman Empire. The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material ...

Many people have tried to read the scrolls since then, but most attempts have destroyed the ancient papyrus scrolls ... By October, Nader, an Egyptian PhD student in Berlin, was able to read ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

What were Egyptian hieroglyphs? The ancient Egyptians left behind written records on their buildings and on papyrus scrolls but how do we know what the writing means? What did the ancient ...

an Egyptian PhD student in Berlin, and Julian Schilliger, a Swiss robotics student in Zurich, deciphered text on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll, winning them $700,000 of prize money in the process.

The papyrus revealed how the imperial state dealt with financial crimes - specifically tax fraud involving slaves - in Judaea ...

Because to own this scroll would ... The numeracy of the Egyptians, honed by works like the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, was widely admired across the ancient world. Plato, for example, urged ...

The image showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been burnt in the ... a project that utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher ancient texts that had remained unreadable for ...