Scientists in the UK have developed novel scanning techniques to reveal the secret writings on the 2,000-year-old papyrus that mummy cases are made from. Members of an Egyptian archaeological team ...

Ancient Egypt: Glowing Ink Reveals Hidden Writings on Papyrus Covering 2,000-Year-Old Mummies Published Jan 02, 2018 at 12:34 PM EST Updated Jan 02, 2018 at 6:14 PM EST ...

The scraps of papyrus are more than 2,000 years old. The writing on them is often obscured by the paste and plaster that holds the mummy cases together.

Ancient Papyrus Fragments By Rima Chaddha Posted 11.01.06 NOVA scienceNOW During the Greek and Roman occupations of Eygpt, from 332 B.C. to A.D. 641, the city of Oxyrhynchus became the third ...

Slowly ceasing, day by day, year by year. Once a privilege, now only found within a few. As learned in sophomore history classes, handwriting was first formed by ancient civilizations such as Rome, ...

Last week episodes like these were half revealed, half suggested, in two papyrus leaves and one small papyrus scrap from a collection of Greek writings acquired in Egypt lately by the British ...

London, Jan 1 (PTI) Scientists in the UK have developed novel scanning techniques to reveal the secret writings on the 2,000-year-old papyrus that mummy cases are made from.