A rare, nearly 2,000-year-old New Testament manuscript has been discovered on eBay at a starting bid of just $99. The eBay listing was spotted by an assistant professor at the University of Texas, ...

There were concerns academics would not be able to study the papyrus if it was sold into a private collection (xselect55/eBay) An ancient and rare Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John was ...

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 ...

An ancient Greek papyrus with mirror writing on both sides which had baffled researchers for almost half a millennia has finally been decoded. The 2,000-year-old document puzzled generations of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greek papyrus inscribed with writings from the New Testament University of Texas A papyrus containing a fragment of the Gospel of John was spotted by an academic at the University of Texas, who ...

It should have been a historian's dream. When two Oxford University undergraduate students discovered an Egyptian rubbish dump filled with ancient Greek papyri in 1896, they spent ten years ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Austin: In January, Geoffrey Smith, a scholar of early Christianity at the University of Texas, noticed something startling: an eBay ...