Yale's Peabody museum is displaying ancient papyrus from Egypt that showcases some of humanity's first forms of writing.

When I walked into the Amon Papyrus Museum on the outskirts of Cairo on Abo el Houl Street, near the Giza plateau, I expected a quick tour and perhaps a souvenir or two. What I didn’t expect was to be ...

For the first time in a hundred years, archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a 16-meter-long ancient papyrus, as reported first by Arkeonews. A woman looks at papyrus on March 6 ...

Brian Hyland, associate curator from Oklahoma City, interprets a sarcophagus replica of Jonah inside the “Vatican Museums and Vatican Library” exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington Nov. 15, ...

Well known to specialists, but less familiar to the general public, Vienna’s ancient Egyptian Papyrus Museum should be part of every visit to the Austrian capital. The Austrian capital Vienna is one ...

This is the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt. It contains 84 different mathematical problems - such as how to distribute 100 loaves of bread among a workforce in ...

Researchers studied a small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the River Nile a little over 100 years ago. The team used serval methods including non-destructive ...

CAIRO >> Egypt’s ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing of its oldest museum Monday, home to a 16-meter-long scroll unearthed last year. The refurbishment marks the first stage ...

SHARQIYA, Egypt, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- In Qaramos village of Sharqiya province north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, people of different ages can be seen around carrying papyrus sticks from the farms to ...