The joke stems from the period following the 1979 U.S.-brokered Israel-Egypt peace agreement – in exchange for full diplomatic relations with Egypt, Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

The Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, whose surgeons developed the revolutionary Tommy John surgery, filed a $150 million lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation and Santa Monica ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

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.

Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose water and mercury to vegetable gas and papyrus juice, according to the ...