They are made from scraps of papyrus which were used by ancient Egyptians for shopping lists or tax returns. The technology is giving historians a new insight into everyday life in ancient Egypt.

You can see three types of marginal signs in the left margin of the second column. One indicates change of speaker; the second indicates overlaps between the papyrus text and the tradition of ...

In mid-2023, researchers at the University of Hamburg uncovered a piece of early Christian history during a routine digitization project. Scholars Gabriel Nocchi Macedo and his colleague, Lajos ...

"For the past 18 months, we've been closely studying these papyrus documents," Macedo said, according to BioBioChile. The fragment, measuring approximately 11 by 5 centimeters and dating from the ...