Mohamed Saeed, a 23-year old man, complained to Al-Masry Al-Youm about the decline of the papyrus craft in Qaramous village, Sharqiya, which has left him unemployed among millions of other youth in ...

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.

It wasn't long after that poor old papyrus got pushed to the side. Pulp paper mills would become modernized with the first printing press in 1440. But we shouldn't forget good ol’ papyrus, the ...

The papyrus that ancient Egyptians used to make mummy casings was literally scrap paper, originally used for shopping lists or tax returns. A new scanning technique that makes the ink glow is ...

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 ...

The logo is seen at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland March 29, 2017. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann The secrets of a mysterious 2,000-year-old papyrus have finally been revealed after years of ...

Once used by ancient Egyptians as writing paper, local artists decorate the papyrus with ... nearly $1,000 a month and now it's almost zero," said the 60-year-old as he showed off his replica ...

A small fragment of faded papyrus contains a suggestion that Jesus may have been married. The fragment, with just eight lines of text on the front and six lines on the back, is from a fourth ...

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