Historians have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus discovered in the Judean desert that details an elaborate tax evasion scheme, forgery and fraudulent sale and manumission of slaves by two men.

A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide. A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale ...

1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Gripping Case About Roman Tax Fraud and Forgery A newly-studied ancient papyrus is so detailed it could be an episode of Law & Order, Roman style.

On September 7, 2022, various press outlets ran stories about a First Temple Period Hebrew papyrus, with an Old Hebrew inscription. Four lines of text are partially preserved, with the first ...

Meanwhile, the researchers will be studying whether wasabi can be used on materials such as textiles and paper. You Might Also Like This 21-Year-Old Used A.I. to Decipher Text From a Scroll That ...

The papyrus scrolls found in a Herculaneum villa in the 1750s were badly charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Since their discovery in the 1700s, researchers have tried many ...

Written in Greek, the papyrus fragment dates to the fourth or fifth century, making it the earliest copy of this gospel known to exist, scholars wrote in a paper recently published in the journal ...

The journey from tree to paper begins in the forest where trees are felled and taken to lumber mills. There, their bark is stripped away, and the wood is hacked into chips.

Following the papyrus trail . No one is certain when or by whom the papyrus was unearthed, but Dolganov said it was probably found in the 1950s by Bedouin antiquity dealers.