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

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

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.

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets. UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and ...

The Herculaneum Papyri are a collection of ancient manuscripts discovered in the Roman city of Herculaneum, Italy, which was both destroyed and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

Fragment of a document from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, including a text of the Hippocratic Oath. Recto: A business or official document in a fluent cursive hand, almost entirely illegible. Verso: The ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were unearthed in the 1750s in the remains of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. These scrolls, believed to contain invaluable ancient knowledge, are so fragile that ...

A SUICIDE prevention charity based in Warrington has warned it may need to reduce its services due to "unprecedented financial pressures." Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide, which supports young ...