Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. The writing — which is more than 2,000 years old — was found inside a ...

The papyrus scroll was fully restored and translated at Tahrir's Egyptian Museum and has been named the Waziri Papyrus after Mostafa Waziri. The Weighing of the Hearts, as seen in an illustration ...

Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. A particularly exciting find was a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll ...

Wasabi vapours are potent enough to kill fungi growing on painted papyrus fragments – all without ... the field of conservation”. The Grand Egyptian Museum team plans to go ahead with using ...

“We're going to be looking at some of the materials from the Middle East collection, notably some Arabic papyrus fragments,” said Lyuba Basin, rare books librarian at J. Willard Marriott Librar ...

Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, suggests more than you might think. A much more diverse range of snakes than we'd imagined lived in the ...