The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

UK scientists used AI to "virtually unroll" ancient scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. UK scientists ...

Fragment of a document from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, including a text of the Hippocratic Oath. Recto: A business or official document in a fluent cursive hand, almost entirely illegible. Verso: The ...

Human creativity and knowledge cannot be successfully bottled and contained. Sooner or later, efforts to do so always tend to backfire.

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the second century CE ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Egyptian alabaster hemispherical form ear stud. In shape the piece resembles a papyrus column with widely flaring umbel. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Worn, surrface dirt. Gatty Slip (1873): Seven alabaster ...

Now known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus, this ancient text has given scholars a greater understanding of medical practices in ancient Egypt. The exact origins of the Edwin Smith Papyrus aren’t known, but ...

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

And we use the River Nile to provide water for our crops. And you’re even using papyrus. Child: It’s paper actually. Ancient Egyptian: Well, whatever you call it, we invented it. We use it to ...

Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...