For the first time in 1,900 years, humans have been able to read ancient text dating from the height of the Roman Empire. The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material similar to ...

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 ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities Authority, ...

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert was not what it seemed. The newly translated scroll reveals extraordinary details of a judicial hearing ...

A remarkable papyrus recently unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority offers unprecedented insights into Roman legal procedures and life in the Near East. Scholars from the ...

At some point, many of us have found ourselves in the unfortunate position of being willing to try just about anything to rid oneself of the morning-after curses of a night of excessive inebriation.

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. If you thought you would find few parallels between today's world and the world of 2,000 years ago, ...

The meaning behind the ancient papyrus script was finally cracked by researchers in Switzerland after decades were spent trying to crack the text A MYSTERIOUS 2,000-year-old scroll has been deciphered ...

Centuries ago, one of the first Christians in the Roman Empire to live in the province of Egypt wrote a letter to an acquaintance on papyrus—a kind of thick form of paper used in ancient times. This ...