The so-called “Papyrus of Cleopatra,” dated February 23, 33 BCE, is a royal decree that exempts a Roman citizen from paying fees for exporting Egyptian wheat and importing Greek wine. It also grants ...

Charles Cosgrove’s 2011 book, An Ancient Christian Hymn with Musical Notation: Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1789: Text and Commentary, provides extensive analysis and history of the fragment.

This Holy Week a new song of praise has arrived. Or rather an ancient one has been revived. In 1918, archaeologists digging on a rubbish dump at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt discovered a tattered piece of ...

Joined by co-writer Ben Fielding ("Goodness Of God," "What A Beautiful Name,") the two were asked by historian Dr. John Dickson to help recreate a hymn from a piece of papyrus unearthed in Egypt ...

istock/Wirestock Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian papyrus, releasing a contemporary version of the song ahead of ...

Archeological dating could certify without a doubt, Dickson said, that the hymn dated to the mid-200s, owing to paleography and “a corn contract on the back” of the papyrus. About a fifth of the words ...

Selecting the correct answer to Papyrus Problems in Civilization 7 will grant you +100 Science. If you have previously come across this narrative event and you selected the wrong answer, there is ...

To figure out the Papyrus Problem answer on your own, calculate 7x7x7x7x7, then add 7^4, then add 7^3, then add 7^2, and finally add 7 to your result. Your totals should be 16,807 + 2,401 + 343 ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

The newly translated papyrus was written after Roman Emperor Hadrian ’s visit to Judea around 130 C.E. and before the Bar Kokhba Revolt, per the study.

Human History 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Gripping Case About Roman Tax Fraud and Forgery A newly-studied ancient papyrus is so detailed it could be an episode of Law & Order, Roman style.