“There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...

In October 2012, a remarkable Coptic papyrus, featuring lines from Paul’s Letter to Galatians, went up for sale on eBay. In the academic community of papyrus experts like myself, furious discussions ...

Greeting card and stationery chain Papyrus is closing its stores in another blow to the ailing industry. Most of the 254 closings will take place over four to six weeks, said Dominique Schurman, CEO ...

An ancient Egyptian manuscript may prove the biblical 10 plagues described in the Book of Exodus. Known as the Ipuwer Papyrus, the document takes the form of a poetic lament attributed to a scribe ...

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 1,900-year-old papyrus recently deciphered for the first time has offered an unprecedented testimony on life in the land of Israel on the eve of the Bar Kochba revolt (132-135 CE), new research by a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," a papyrus written in Coptic and containing text that refers to ...

In 2012 Karen King, a prestigious scholar at Harvard Divinity School, announced the academic discovery of a lifetime: a scrap of papyrus, purportedly from the early days of Christianity, in which ...