Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection) Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden ...

It’s been a real gift to be able to have more people be ... left him a memento. Huff cut out Egyptian papyrus in the exact shape of an ancient scrap believed to be the oldest record of a New ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

are among the potential gifts and keepsakes you’ll be proffered at bazaars and emporiums. Do some friendly haggling and pay in US dollars, euros or Egyptian pounds (the currency was devalued by ...

The agave holds the place of Asiatic hemp and Egyptian papyrus. Ancient hieroglyphics ... as it is one of the most valuable gifts which nature has bestowed on these tropical regions of America.

Now known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus, this ancient text has given scholars a greater understanding of medical practices in ancient Egypt. The exact origins of the Edwin Smith Papyrus aren’t known, but ...

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

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according ...

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of text, an ancient piece of papyrus shows how even Roman government had to ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...