Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well ...

Archaeologists took the papyrus, named Waziri Papyrus 1, to a laboratory in Tahrir where it was carefully opened, according to the release. Fully unrolled, the scroll was about 52 feet long.

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Nature - The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: British Museum 10057 and 10058 Photographic Facsimile, Hieroglyphic Transcription, Transliteration, Literal Translation, Free Translation, Mathematical ...

Decoding Hieroglyphics. Season 20 Episode 3 | 55m 15s Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions | AD CC. Research is revealing the hieroglyphic texts from within the tomb of an Egyptian scribe ...

Detail of the word written by Cleopatra. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Others believe it was a high-ranking official who penned it. Either way, the papyrus—catalogued as P.25239—is ...

Researchers in Austria and Israel have translated the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert. Previously unearthed, misidentified, and then nearly forgotten, Hannah Cotton Paltiel ...

Life in ancient Egypt had been a mystery for centuries until the discovery of the Rosetta stone. A new exhibition at The British Museum in London explores how the stone was decoded and celebrates ...