A five-year project will analyze 250 Dead Sea Scroll samples, while the Copper Scroll and its listed treasure sites remain beyond the study’s methods. The European Research Council awarded €2.5 ...

Seventeen centuries before Christopher Nolan turned The Odyssey into one of 2026’s biggest cinema releases, an unknown scribe ...

About 2,000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca warned of a crisis of attention. The problem wasn’t caused by smartphones or TikTok; it was because papyrus had become more widely available. As a ...

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About 2,000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca warned of a crisis of attention. The problem wasn’t caused by smartphones ...

Researchers will analyze 250 Dead Sea Scroll samples to uncover their origins, while the mysterious copper scroll treasure ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Nearly 2000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, hundreds of papyrus scrolls were buried under ash. Long considered ...

A five-year project examining the origins of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls is to begin, thanks in part to a 2 5 million euro grant from the European Research Council ...

Egyptian excavators working near Luxor have opened a sealed underground chamber containing 22 painted coffins and papyrus scrolls, according to statements from Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry ...

A full Herculaneum scroll "unwrapped" with technology reveals new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushers in a new era for the study of the ancient world.