The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

A remarkable discovery in Egypt has brought new light to one of ancient Greece’s most influential thinkers, with 30 previously unknown verses by Empedocles uncovered in a centuries-old papyrus. The ...

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic ...

NEW YORK — That pair of words at the beginning of the title “Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling” serves a double purpose. The exhibition runs through May 3 at the Morgan Library ...

When I was a doctoral candidate at Oxford, I spent much of my time working in the papyrology rooms. Usually, my only company was the curator, a kind and learned Sardinian woman who is now a professor ...

John Richard Fox, 86, of Gainesboro, Tennessee, passed away March 21, 2026, at Alive Hospice Residence in Nashville, Tennessee. Born and raised in Gainesboro, John spent his entire life in service to ...

A five-day Supreme Court trial, brought by a rebel faction of Liberal members opposed to the party’s $1.55m loan to the former opposition leader, had been due to begin this week. Instead, it was ...

The papyri, mostly in Greek, date from the period between the second century BC and the seventh century AD. Among the half million fragments are legal documents, records of business transactions, and ...

When Chris Tomlin first saw a photograph of a fragile scrap of papyrus unearthed in Egypt, a fragment containing what is believed to be the earliest known Christian hymn, the Grammy Award-winning ...