a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn’t fluent enough to decode the text. Smith sensed the scroll had great value, and he also suspected the merchant selling the ...

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 ...

Archeologists unearthed a 52-foot-long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing which was more than 2,000 years old from Saqqara, Egypt. Experts discovered the Book of the Dead papyrus inside a coffin in ...