Archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old Greek pyramid-shaped structure near the Dead Sea, believed to be a former desert ...

Her discovery would turn out to be the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert, a remarkable document that reveals an ancient tale of financial crimes in the Roman Empire.

Join an experience of discovery in one of the richest desert excavations ever conducted, illuminating and transforming our historical knowledge of a unique site.

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving ... The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written ...

and the various villages of the Fayoum have yielded thousands of ancient Greek books and documents. Philadelphia was the findspot of the famous Zenon archive, an assembly of papyrus documents ...

Named the Herculaneum Scrolls, after the city they were found in, the collection is the only library left from the ancient world ... The word was translated from Greek to mean "purple dye ...

It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken ... The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards ...