Her RTs = unwavering personal convictions @kastaliamedrano. The black inks that ancient Egyptians used for writing on papyrus texts were made, in part, of metal. A collaboration of international ...

More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the remains of an ancient papyrus scroll onto cardboard to preserve it. But the scroll, a history of Plato's Academy, also had writing on the back.

In 1970, archaeologists excavating the site of an ancient synagogue in Israel ... of Kentucky created a picture of the writing inside the scroll without unwrapping it, or even touching the charred ...

there’s also the tantalizing possibility of finding writing from authors “we know absolutely nothing about,” Marzano says. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls in the ancient city of Herculaneum were ...

The winning submission shows ancient Greek letters on a large patch of scroll, and the author seems ... at the University of Michigan. “Is he writing about the effect of music on the hearer ...

Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara ... just last year when archeologists discovered a 13-foot-long scroll ...

and surviving pieces with writing were considered to be nearly illegible to the human eye — until now. After two millennia, the first full word from one of the unopened ancient papyri has been ...

The scroll had actually been scanned before by the same team, but those efforts yielded only the first few lines of the text. This time, the researchers were able to recover nearly all of the ancient ...

Researchers say it is the first time they have been able to read the text of an ancient ... the scroll, to be able to read a few columns of text inside. “Not only were you seeing writing ...

The Herculaneum Scroll was discovered in the 1700s ... Mount Vesuvius Caused Romans' Heads to Explode The ancient scrolls were originally housed in the library of a private villa near Pompeii ...