It was rediscovered in 2014, and now the 133-line papyrus has finally been translated from its original Greek. The scroll contains a prosecutor's notes from a trial that took place around 131 C.E ...

Researchers in Austria and Israel have translated the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert. Previously unearthed, misidentified, and then nearly forgotten, Hannah Cotton Paltiel ...

Among the numerous fragments of lost Greek classics, the most noteworthy that we have hitherto deciphered are (1) a first century B. C. papyrus containing on one side an epinician ode or odes by a ...

The ancient Greek hymn is by far the oldest surviving piece of Christian music—it predates the next notated work by six centuries. Inspired by the ancient fragment, Dickson reached out to Ben ...

Ancient Philadelphia and Greek Papyri from EgyptBasem Gehad has been directing excavations at the Ancient Philadelphia Necropolis in the Egyptian Fayoum since 2016. His team has cleaned tombs that ...

The Greek colonization of Egypt was mainly concentrated in Lower Egypt and the Fayum, which is why these are the areas that have yielded the most papyri. Almost all are Byzantine, dating after the 3rd ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe.

Researchers Have Deciphered a Nearly 2,000-Year-Old True Crime Papyrus The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations ...

More specifically, they discovered and translated a Greek papyrus that was found to be a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official during the reign of Hadrian, after the emperor's ...