The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

During Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.

Scientists have deciphered Greek letters from a Herculaneum scroll that was burned by the explosion of Vesuvius 2,000 years ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered ... were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

An extraordinary, lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient ... papyrus provides insight into a cultural and intellectual environment in which Roman law, Greek ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s ... One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for "disgust". Peter Toth, a curator at the Bodleian Library, said ...