This film explores the ancient civilization of Egypt, highlighting its monumental achievements such as the Sphinx and ...

We have some of the most efficient tools for making flour. And we use the River Nile to provide water for our crops. And you’re even using papyrus ... writing system called hieroglyphs. The ...

Writing materials like papyrus and parchment were very expensive for ... The lack of lowercase letters was not a limitation but rather a reflection of the tools and techniques that people in ancient ...

Much of the early search for a lost Indus Valley language centred on the seals that were found when the old cities were ...

Indeed, you’ve heard of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. At one time, we believed those to be the oldest civilizations. However, new discoveries lead us to believe people were living civilized ...

In fact radiocarbon dating has determined the papyrus is from the 7 th century BCE. Immediate debate over the authenticity began. A Professor Rollston from George Washington University said, ‘Ancient ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian ... of the Edwin Smith Papyrus aren’t known, but scholars believe that it likely came from a tomb in the Theban Necropolis, a burial site ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The papyrus ...