The depiction of a beloved 'Simpsons' character has been discovered inside a 3,500-year-old mummy's sarcophagus in Egypt.

In the small library room in Oslo, there are bookshelves filled with published papyri from around the world. Tens of ...

Archaeologists Unearthed 'Book of the Dead' Papyrus in 3,500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Cemetery The ancient Egyptians are still considered geniuses. From the construction of pyramids to burying ...

CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Thursday began putting on display the country’s oldest papyruses, which date back 4,500 years, detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders. The items ...

The numeracy of the Egyptians, honed by works like the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, was widely admired across the ancient world. Plato, for example, urged the Greeks to copy the Egyptians, where ...

Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing within its 120-year-old museum, the first stage of a broader replenishment program for the palatial building. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) ...

Students from the U.S. and Europe are gathered at UC Berkeley for six weeks this summer to pore through the f Egyptian papyrus texts brought back to Cal a century ago by Phoebe Hearst. It's the ...

Papyrus is a type of writing support used mostly in Egypt and parts of the Middle East. Papyrus comes from the Papyrus plant. The plant has been used for over a thousand years, and it still exists.

In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

papyri_049_mac.jpg Todd Hickey, Curator of the Papyrus Collection at UC Berkeley, Anthony Bliss, Rare Books Librarian and Donald Mastronarde, Director of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyrus ...