The first discovered and largest papyrus document written in hieratic script is set to be displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square for the first time since its restoration work was completed, ...

A joint intelligence operation conducted by Israeli authorities repatriated an ancient Hebrew script on papyrus belonging to the First Temple period, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. The ...

BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife.

John Gaudet looks and sounds like he could have walked right out of a Graham Greene novel, or maybe written one of those classic African explorer books. Seventeen years on the continent for the Rhode ...

An ancient scrap of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife, according to a renowned expert in Christian history, external. Harvard divinity professor Karen King unveiled the ...

Avatar's use of a slightly modified Papyrus font has been the subject of much mockery since the film's 2009 release, most notably in an SNL sketch starring Ryan Gosling. Now, the whole backstory ...

If you want to get to know someone, especially if you’re an ancient historian, you should go through their rubbish. At the end of the 19th century, two Oxford academics, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur ...

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