A triangle pointing right which indicates this type of media can be played. Only 40 Benin Bronze makers are left in Nigeria as it fights to have its stolen artifacts returned A triangle pointing ...

The paper was co-authored by Dolganov, Prof. Fritz Mitthof of the University of Vienna, Cotton Paltiel, and Dr. Avner Ecker of the Hebrew University. Given the name “Papyrus Cotton” to honor ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and ...

The papyrus, named P. Cotton in recognition of Prof. Emerita Hannah Cotton-Paltiel’s discovery, contains 133 lines of Greek text and is the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert.

and indeed gave most European languages their very word for paper. But it was expensive - a 17-foot roll like the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus would have cost two copper deben, about the same as a ...

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 ...