The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

The Euripidean text dates to the 3 rd century CE. It is written on the back of a land survey from the late 2 nd century CE or early 3 rd century CE. It contains an excerpt from Ino in the first column ...

My problem came with a recent home improvement, with the pipe that drains the condensation from the air-conditioning system. The water drips down onto the patio, making a watery mess that made moss ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare, 2,700-year-old papyrus with Hebrew script that had been looted from a cave in the Judean ...

In October 2012, a remarkable Coptic papyrus, featuring lines from Paul’s Letter to Galatians, went up for sale on eBay. In the academic community of papyrus experts like myself, furious discussions ...

Papyrus, a retail shop best known for its trendy stationery supplies and greeting cards, is going out of business, shuttering hundreds of stores in North America, including three shops in San Diego.

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have unveiled the earliest known non-biblical, Hebrew-language reference to Jerusalem, dating back to the time of the First Temple in the seventh century B.C. The ...

Stationery seller Papyrus will shutter all of its retail stores after its parent company filed for bankruptcy. Schurman Fine Papers, the Tennessee-based firm that operates the artsy greeting-card ...