Mohamed Abdul Rahman, 18, son of a papyrus farmlands and workshops owner checks sheets if the papyrus is dry at a workshop in al-Qaramous village, amid COVID-19 concerns in Sharqia Governorate ...

Previously, the oldest surviving copies of Biblical gospel texts date back to 101 to 200 A.D. The text was written on a papyrus sheet that was later reused for the mummy mask.

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

This first-century gospel fragment was written on a sheet of papyrus that was later reused to create a mask that was worn by a mummy. Although the mummies of Egyptian pharaohs wore masks made of ...

Who built the pyramids? We still wonder today, but this diary might help us determine the individual responsible for one of the wonders of the world.

Most of the papyrus sheets that Professor Bataille untangles are startlingly similar to the waste paper of a modern office building —receipted bills, accounts, inventories, private and ...

The Crosby-Schøyen Codex is an ancient Egyptian biblical manuscript dating back to the 3rd-century AD. It's a 'codex', an ancient manuscript text in book form, using sheets of vellum or papyrus ...

Ancient Egyptians made an early version of plant-based paper using papyrus — which is where the word "paper" comes from. They removed fibers from the stem of the papyrus plant (Cyperus papyrus ...

Botanically speaking, the papyrus is Cyperus papyrus. If you remember your elementary history, this plant is native to Egypt and was used for making papyrus sheets for writing.

Having isolated several sections, the software then flattens these sheets, allowing the team to look for signs of writing. Here the structure of papyrus comes to their aid.