A 1,500-year-old papyrus keepsake found in a British library is believed to be one of the earliest ever found referring to the Last Supper, researchers say. The papyrus was likely placed in an amulet ...

The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Vol. 49 (2012), pp. 175-208 (34 pages) Census of the Greek (Part 1: by K.A. Worp) and Coptic (Part 2: by R. Dekker) papyri once belonging to the ...

A 1,500-year-old fragment of Greek papyrus with writing that refers to the biblical Last Supper and "manna from heaven" may be one of the oldest Christian amulets, say researchers. The fragment was ...

The papyri recently received by the Semitic Museum from the Egypt Exploration Fund of London, have just been mounted and put on exhibition in the Semitic collection in the Peabody Museum. They are in ...

Marja Vierros, the PI of the ERC funded project PapyGreek leads us to the room full of papyri treasures at the University of Helsinki. However, the papyri are in the form of modern books, not ancient ...

New research on papyri sheds light on an ancient world with surprisingly modern concerns: including hoped-for medical cures, religious confusion and the need for financial safeguards. A University of ...

Marja Vierros's PapyGreek project fills a void in Greek scholarship: the papyrological corpus represents the Post-Classical variety of Greek, a bridge between Classical and Medieval Greek, which has ...

A remarkable discovery in the Judean Desert has revealed a scandalous case of tax fraud and forgery dating back nearly 1,900 ...