One of the worlds’ largest collections of historic papyrus resides at the University of Michigan.

Nine scholars recently attended a seminar at the University of Michigan to learn about conserving papyrus manuscripts.

In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Papyrus Anastasi I; sheet 1; Hieratic literary text: "The Satirical Letter," February 4, 2026. (photo credit: The Trustees of the ...

AL-QARAMOUS, Egypt (Reuters) - A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has seen demand for the paper collapse after the novel coronavirus pandemic brought Egypt's foreign ...

The illustration depicts the scribe Ramose and a jackal figure that may represent the god Wepwawet. © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Ancient ...

The scriveners of ancient Egypt were more than papyrus pushers, but they suffered many of the same repetitive ailments as desk jockeys today, a new study suggests. A statue of Amenhotep as a seated ...

In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists recently discovered a 1,600-year-old tomb with several mummies inside. Some of them were decorated with gold leaf or geometric ...