entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication.

They tell us about beliefs, gods, clothing and everyday life. The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing like laws. This is different from societies living ...

Among the surviving texts is a document now known as the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus, which records ... Kemp noted that the ...

The first step was figuring out a recipe. McDonnell started by looking at the Ebers Papyrus, a 3,500-year-old document from ancient Egypt that’s full of medicinal recipes. The document lists ...

The hieroglyphic text of the papyrus of Senemnetjer, along with its illustration, identifies it as a funerary writing of a magical ... in the afterlife. In ancient Egyptian, the Book of the ...