The Euripidean text dates to the 3rd century CE. It is written on the back of a land survey from the late 2nd century CE or early 3rd century CE.It contains an excerpt from Ino in the first column and ...

A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in a German archive has been revealed to contain the earliest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian text describing the ...

The court case referenced in the papyrus text centered on two people — Gadalias and Saulos — who forged documents related to selling and freeing slaves to get around paying Roman taxes.

The earliest known version of this book is a codex from the 11th century CE, but a new papyrus fragment appears to contain an even older piece of the text—one that dates from the 4th or 5th ...

The ostracon is now the third strand of evidence suggesting women had power in the Jewish temple hierarchy at Elephantine, Holm notes; the others are a papyrus text about a female “servant of ...

Researchers Reveal Text Written on Ancient Papyrus Scrolls Burned In The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius A wealth of knowledge is locked away in the hundreds of scrolls waiting to be translated.

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...

The text on the ancient papyrus describes the miracle of vivification of the sparrows, also called Jesus’s ‘second miracle’. In this miracle a young Jesus moulded 12 sparrows from clay.

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...