The papyrus is reported to have contained texts from the ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” — which contained magic spells to aid the deceased on their journey into the afterlife.

The construction of the Great Pyramid is still a bit of an archaeological mystery, a papyrus discovered in 2013 reveals now where ancient Egyptians got the rocks needed to build this ancient wonder.

This 2,000-year-old papyrus tells the story of Jesus turning clay sparrows into live birds, known as the "vivification of the sparrows" or the "second miracle".

Historians have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus discovered in the Judean desert that details an elaborate tax evasion scheme, forgery and fraudulent sale and manumission of slaves by two men.

The script, known as Papyrus Salt 124, outlines a list of alleged indiscretions by an important artisan called Paneb, who lived in Thebes in about 1200BC. Its ruins lie within the modern Egyptian ...

Tales of tragedy written on papyrus that lay hidden for centuries in an Ancient Egyptian rubbish dump have been revealed after being pieced together with the help of a small army of citizen ...