“There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...

How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Published in Environmental Archaeology, Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes ...

An ancient Egyptian letter, written roughly 3,300 years ago, has suddenly become the latest flashpoint in a very old argument about whether the Bible’s giant humans were rooted in real encounters. The ...

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 ...

The Papyrus Conservation Summer Seminar at the University of Michigan is the only one of its kind in the Americas, according ...

A new study has found that wasabi—the spicy green paste that pairs well with sushi—can be used as a tool to conserve ancient papyrus scrolls. Thousands of years ago, papyrus was used to make a number ...