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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...