Smith purchased the papyrus and returned to buy additional pieces he later identified as a continuation of the scroll. Now known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus, this ancient text has given scholars a ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

Now, Farritor is a key player in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE—yes, named with the kind of meme-savvy irreverence only Musk could muster. DOGE isn’t your typical ...

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and ...

The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material similar to paper, made from the pith of the papyrus plant – found in the Judean desert. Consisting of 133 lines of text in ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The papyrus ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

The scroll had been classified as Nabataean, an ancient Arabic dialect, but as Cotton Paltiel studied it, she realized that it was actually written in Greek — and the race began to decipher what the 1 ...

“Suspension of disbelief” is loosely defined as “the act of temporarily ignoring logic and critical thinking to enjoy a work of fiction.” For those of us who support teams that missed the ...

Utter disbelief fell across waves of NBA followers as a league-altering trade hit their screens in the hush of the night. Luka Dončić is headed to the Los Angeles Lakers, while Anthony Davis is ...

I'm frustrated. I'm in disbelief that this is actually happening these days," she recalled in a phone interview. Dawson-McClure is one of more than 65,000 North Carolina voters who have had their ...

On Thursday night the attention was taken off of the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles for the first time all week when NFL Honors took center stage. The major awards were handed out ...