CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing of its oldest museum Monday, home to a 16-meter (52-foot) -long scroll unearthed last year. The refurbishment marks ...

Papyrus, the ancient world’s paper, is made from the pith of reeds that grew along the Nile River. Lucky for us, it was used ...

An Egyptian papyrus from the 13th century BC describes giant warriors and reopens a global historical and biblical debate.

A 3,300-year-old Egyptian document housed in the British Museum is drawing renewed attention from archaeologists and biblical historians. A growing number of scholars are examining the text for what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Papyrus Anastasi I; sheet 1; Hieratic literary text: "The Satirical Letter," February 4, 2026. (photo credit: The Trustees of the ...

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that Japanese horseradish isn’t just good as a sinus-clearing part of a plate of sushi, but is also effective in art conservation. Wasabi vapors have been found to effectively ...