What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? the oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious ...

Nottinghamshire Police is sending out an important message to people who may be struggling with their mental health over the ...

In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum. Inside was a ...

A small piece of 1 700-year-old papyrus about the size of a cigarette packet is causing an uproar in the Christian world. This is because the fragment is from a previously unknown gospel in which ...

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...

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 hearing ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities ...

In mid-2023, researchers at the University of Hamburg uncovered a piece of early Christian history during a routine digitization project. Scholars Gabriel Nocchi Macedo and his colleague, Lajos Berkes ...

In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...

The earliest surviving copy describing one of Jesus’s miracles has just been discovered. Researchers from German and Belgium have identified a fragment of papyrus, a material used to write on before ...

On a warm Saturday night at the end of August in 2023, Luke Farritor, then an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, was sitting alone in a corner at a house party in Omaha when his iPhone ...

C. Michael Sampson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 'the Books of Karanis,' a project that studies fragmentary Greek literature from the Egyptian ...