An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...

A piece of the Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, dated roughly to 375 B.C. to 275 B.C., is part of several ancient Egyptian funerary scroll fragments collectively known as the Book of the Dead.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the first documents within the West Bank’s Qumrum Caves in 1946, ...

The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient Herculaneum scrolls. The title has been unread for nearly 2,000 years, ever ...

The scroll, which was revealed as part of a presentation of archaeological finds from the Tuna al-Gebel cemetery in central Egypt, is estimated to be 43 to 49 feet long.

Herculaneum papyri 2023: Charred scrolls history. How a college student read a charred scroll.

The "'Book of the Dead' denotes the relatively large corpus of mortuary texts that were typically copied onto papyrus scrolls and deposited in burials of the New Kingdom [circa 1550 B.C. to 1070 B ...

In 2016 Seales, who is at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he reported using the technique to read a charred scroll from En-Gedi in Israel, revealing sections of the Book of Leviticus ...

Egyptian officials have released photos of an ancient scroll, the 52-foot-long (16 meters) Book of the Dead papyrus recently discovered in Saqqara. The 10 images show ancient illustrations of gods ...

A book number on the scroll suggests that it could be the first installment of more works. On Vices is known to contain at least 10 volumes across such topics as arrogance, flattery, greed, and ...