In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

When we crack open a book, we’re partaking in a small miracle, joining in a tradition, millennia in the making, of preserving ...

A 10-by-6-inch piece of papyrus is, researchers now believe, part of the world’s first book. And, like many of the volumes that fill offices, libraries, and homes, it has had many lives. The papyrus ...

Researchers have translated an ancient Greek document from 267 AD, which talks about an ancient wrestling match that was fixed, Live Science reports. The document is a contract between the guarantors ...

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 ...

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IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would probably not think of using a particle accelerator. But that is what is ...

For nearly two millennia, PHerc. 172 — a scroll turned to charcoal in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD — was supposed to be unreadable. The ancient manuscript is simply too fragile to touch and ...

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls—charred and buried nearly two thousand years ago during Mount Vesuvius’s eruption—finally reveal their long-lost writings, thanks to the UK’s Diamond Light Source ...

Register here for this hybrid talk. This remarkable story started with the excavation by the Egyptian archaeologist Basem Gehad of a grave in the ancient Egyptian city Philadelphia resulting in the ...

View post: After 23 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Cost $115B and 276 Deaths in 2025, Experts Warn About 2026 Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Ministry of Heritage worked ...