One indicates change of speaker; the second indicates overlaps between the papyrus text and the tradition of Euripides quotations. The function of the third is the subject of scholarly debate.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.